Home For Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLML NOPO NCGC AQIR| Because the earth is vast and dark | A |
| And wet and cold | B |
| Because man's heart wants warmth and light | C |
| Lest it grow old | B |
| - | |
| Therefore the house was built wall roof | D |
| And brick and beam | E |
| By a lost hand following the lost | F |
| Delight of a dream | E |
| - | |
| And room and stair show how that hand | G |
| Groped in eager doubt | H |
| With needless weight of teasing timber | I |
| Matching his thought | J |
| - | |
| Such fond superfluousness of strength | K |
| In wall and wood | L |
| As his half wise half fearful eye | M |
| Deemed only good | L |
| - | |
| His brain he built into the house | N |
| Laboured his bones | O |
| He burnt his heart into the brick | P |
| And red hearth stones | O |
| - | |
| It is his blood that makes the house | N |
| Still warm safe bright | C |
| Honest as aim and eye and hand | G |
| As clean as light | C |
| - | |
| Because the earth is vast and dark | A |
| The house was built | Q |
| Now with another heart and fire | I |
| To be fulfilled | R |
John Freeman
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