An Empty Nest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHGIG| I find an old deserted nest | A |
| Half hidden in the underbrush | B |
| A withered leaf in phantom jest | A |
| Has nestled in it like a thrush | B |
| With weary palpitating breast | A |
| - | |
| I muse as one in sad surprise | C |
| Who seeks his childhood's home once more | D |
| And finds it in a strange disguise | C |
| Of vacant rooms and naked floor | D |
| With sudden tear drops in his eyes | C |
| - | |
| An empty nest It used to bear | E |
| A happy burden when the breeze | F |
| Of summer rocked it and a pair | E |
| Of merry tattlers told the trees | F |
| What treasures they had hidden there | E |
| - | |
| But Fancy flitting through the gleams | G |
| Of youth's sunshiny atmosphere | H |
| Has fallen in the past and seems | G |
| Like this poor leaflet nestled here | I |
| A phantom guest of empty dreams | G |
James Whitcomb Riley
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