The Icehouse In Summer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLMIIMNI FICOPIBIQ| A door sunk in a hillside with a bolt | A |
| thick as the boy s arm and behind that door | B |
| the walls of ice melting a blue faint light | C |
| an air of cedar branches sawdust fern | D |
| decaying seasons keeping from decay | E |
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| A summer guest the boy had never seen | F |
| a servant told him of it how the lake | G |
| froze three foot thick how farmers came with teams | H |
| with axe and saw to cut great blocks of ice | I |
| translucid marbled glittering in the sun | J |
| load them on sleds and drag them up the hill | K |
| to be manhandled down the narrow path | L |
| and set in courses for the summer s keeping | M |
| the kitchen uses and luxuriousness | I |
| of the great houses And he heard how once | I |
| a team and driver drowned in the break of spring | M |
| the man s cry melting from the ice that summer | N |
| frightened the sherbet eaters off the terrace | I |
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| Dust of the cedar lost and evergreen | F |
| among the slowly blunting water walls | I |
| where the blade edge melted and the steel saw s bite | C |
| was rounded out and the horse and rider drowned | O |
| in the red sea s blood I was the silly child | P |
| who dreamed that riderless cry and saw the guests | I |
| run from a ghostly wall so long before | B |
| the winter house fell with the summer house | I |
| and the houses Egypt the great houses had an end | Q |
Howard Nemerov
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