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The Other House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBC DDD EFE GGG HHH III JJJ CCC KKK JJJ

That other house in the same crowded streetA
One red tiled floor had answering to my feetA
And a bewildering garden all of light and heatA
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Only that red floor and garden now remainB
One glowing firelike in my glowing brainB
One with smell colour sun and cloud revived againC
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Yet in the garden the sky was very smallD
Closed by some darkness beyond the low brown wallD
But from the west the gold could long unhindered fallD
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Of human faces I remember noneE
Amid the garden but myself aloneF
With creeping jenny sunflower marigold snapdragonE
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These all my love these now all my lightG
Bringing their kindness to any painful nightG
The sun brushed all their brightness with his skirt more brightG
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And I was happy when I knew it notH
Dreaming of nothing more than that small plotH
And the high sky and sun that floated bright and hotH
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But what night was save dark I did not knowI
The blind shut out the stars the moon would goI
Staring unstared at moon and stars unnoted flowI
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Until one night into the strange street ledJ
To stare at a strange light from the Factory shedJ
Wheeling and darting withdrawn and sudden again outspedJ
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No one knew why but I knew darkness thenC
And saw the stars that hung so still but whenC
I lay abed the old starless dark came back againC
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Night is not night without the stars and moonK
I knew them not or I forgot too soonK
And now remember only the glowing sun of noonK
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The red floor and yellow flowers and a lonely childJ
And a whistle morn and noon and evening shrilledJ
And darkness when the household murmurs even were stilledJ

John Freeman



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