The Red House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACBCADADCCEAE FGHHII| On the wide fields the water gleams like snow | A |
| And snow like water pale beneath pale sky | B |
| When old and burdened the white clouds are stooped low | A |
| Sudden as thought or startled near bird's cry | B |
| The whiteness of first light on hills of snow | A |
| New dropped from skiey hills of tumbling white | C |
| Streams from the ridge to where the long woods lie | B |
| And tall ridge trees lift their soft crowns of white | C |
| Above slim bodies all black or flecked with snow | A |
| By the tossed foam of the not yet frozen brook | D |
| Black pigs go straggling over fields of snow | A |
| The air is full of snow and starling and rook | D |
| Are blacker amid the myriad streams of light | C |
| Warm as old fire the Red House burns yet bright | C |
| Beneath the unmelting snows of pine and larch | E |
| While February moves as slow as slow | A |
| As Spring might never come never come March | E |
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| Amid such snows by generations haunted | F |
| By echoes memories and dreams enchanted | G |
| Firm when dark winds through the night stamp and shout | H |
| Brightest when time silvers the world all about | H |
| That old house called The Heart burns burns and still | I |
| Outbraves the mortal threat of the hanging hill | I |
John Freeman
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