Habitation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFF GBGBHIJIKGGKLMMLNN| High up in the sky there now you know | A |
| In this May twilight our cottage is asleep | B |
| Tenantless and no creature there to go | A |
| Near it but Mrs Fry's fat cows and sheep | B |
| Dove coloured as is Cotswold No one hears | C |
| Under that cherry tree the night jars yet | D |
| The windows are uncurtained on the stairs | E |
| Silence is but by tip toe silence met | D |
| All doors are fast there It is a dwelling put by | F |
| From use for a little or long up there in the sky | F |
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| Empty a walled in silence in this twilight of May | G |
| Home for lovers and friendly withdrawing and sleep | B |
| With none to love there nor laugh nor climb from the day | G |
| To the candles and linen Yet in the silence creep | B |
| This minute I know little ghosts little virtuous lives | H |
| Breathing upon that still insensible place | I |
| Touching the latches sorting the napkins and knives | J |
| And such for the comfort of being and bowls for the grace | I |
| That roses will brim they are creeping from that room to this | K |
| One room and two till the four are visited they | G |
| Little ghosts little lives are our thoughts in this twilight of May | G |
| Signs that even the curious man would miss | K |
| Of travelling lovers to Cotswold signs of an hour | L |
| Very soon when up from the valley in June will ride | M |
| Lovers by Lynch to Oakridge up in the wide | M |
| Bow of the hill to a garden of lavender flower | L |
| The doors are locked no foot falls the hearths are dumb | N |
| But we are there we are waiting ourselves who come | N |
John Drinkwater
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