The Lonesomest House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STIT UVWV CQNQ CBXB| It's the lonesomest house you ever saw | A |
| This big gray house where I stay | B |
| I don't call it living at all at all | C |
| Since my mother's gone away | B |
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| Only four weeks now it seems a year | D |
| Gone to heaven the preacher said | E |
| And my heart is just broke awaiting her | F |
| And my eyes are always red | E |
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| I stay out of doors till I'm almost froze | G |
| 'Cause every identical room | H |
| Seems empty enough to scare a boy | I |
| And packed to the door with gloom | H |
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| Oh but I hate to come in to my meals | J |
| And her not there in her place | K |
| Pouring the tea and passing the things | L |
| With that lovin' shine on her face | K |
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| But night time is worse I creep up the stair | M |
| And to bed as still 's a mouse | N |
| And cry in my pillow it seems so hard | O |
| To stay in this old gray house | N |
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| And nobody giving me good night hugs | P |
| Or smoothing my hair back so | Q |
| Things a boy makes fun of before his chums | R |
| But things that he likes you know | Q |
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| There's no one to go to when things go wrong | S |
| Oh she was so safe and sure | T |
| There wasn't a thing could tackle a boy | I |
| That she couldn't up and cure | T |
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| There's lots of women it seems to me | U |
| That wouldn't be missed so much | V |
| The women whose boys are 'most growed up | W |
| And old maid aunties and such | V |
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| I can't understand it at all at all | C |
| Why on earth she should have to go | Q |
| And leave me here in this old gray house | N |
| Needin' an' wantin' her so | Q |
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| Oh the very lonesomest thing of all | C |
| In the wide wide world to day | B |
| Is a big boy of twelve whose heart's just broke | X |
| 'Cause his mother's gone away | B |
Jean Blewett
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