The First House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBCEEDFFGHIJHKKLI MNOIMNPQRPRIQ| That is the earliest thing that I remember | A |
| The narrow house in the long narrow street | B |
| Dark rooms within and darkness out of doors | C |
| Where grasses in the garden lift in the wind | D |
| Long grasses clinging round unsteady feet | B |
| The sunlight through one narrow passage pours | C |
| As through the keyhole into a dusty room | E |
| Striking with a golden rod the greening gloom | E |
| The tall tall timber stacks have yet been kind | D |
| Letting the sun fling his rod clear between | F |
| Lest there should be no gold upon the green | F |
| And no light then for a child to dream upon | G |
| And day be of day's brightness all forlorn | H |
| I saw those timber piles first dark and tall | I |
| And then men clambered up and stumbled down | J |
| Each with a heavy and long timber borne | H |
| Upon broad shoulders leather covered bent | K |
| Hour after hour day after day they went | K |
| Until the piles were gone and a new sky | L |
| Stretched high and white above the garden wall | I |
| And then fresh piles crept slowly up and up | M |
| The strong men staggering more cruelly bowed | N |
| Till at last they lay idle on the top | O |
| Looking down from their height on things so small | I |
| While I looked wondering and fearful up | M |
| At the strong men at rest on the new built cloud | N |
| But there was other gold than the sun's sparse gold | P |
| Florence's hair its brightness lying still | Q |
| Upon my mind as then upon the grass | R |
| Now the grass covers it and I am old | P |
| Remembering but her hair and that long grass | R |
| And the great wood stacks threatening to fall | I |
| When all dark things will | Q |
John Freeman
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