Seclusion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBB CCDDD EEFFF GGHHI JJKKK LLMMM NNOOO PPQQR SSGGG| Shut out the World shut in the Home | A |
| The sea is deeper than its foam | A |
| Retain the gem reject the paste | B |
| Withdraw from Mammon's feverish haste | B |
| Its tumult and its senseless waste | B |
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| Within are love and books and flowers | C |
| Creators of life's happiest hours | C |
| Without are those whose baneful call | D |
| If once they pass within thy wall | D |
| May blight the beauty of it all | D |
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| Think not they come for love of thee | E |
| They seek from ennui to be free | E |
| To ask some boon or tell some tale | F |
| Which true or false will rarely fail | F |
| To leave behind a poisoned trail | F |
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| What else indeed can such as they | G |
| Invent to pass their time away | G |
| Their thoughts revolve round sport and dress | H |
| Their reading is the daily press | H |
| Their mental life a wilderness | I |
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| What though their dwellings rise near thine | J |
| Propinquity is not a sign | J |
| Of loyal hearts or kindred views | K |
| Thou surely hast a right to choose | K |
| Whom thou wilt welcome whom refuse | K |
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| Decline to let those mar thy joy | L |
| Whose manners wound and words annoy | L |
| The vapid heartless throng eschew | M |
| Admit alone alas how few | M |
| The really kind the really true | M |
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| Yet when did ever a recluse | N |
| Escape the baffled crowd's abuse | N |
| The social world will ne'er condone | O |
| Thy preference to live alone | O |
| Amid resources of thine own | O |
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| Well let it scoff malign or worse | P |
| Thou hast an independent purse | P |
| Alike to thee its smile or sneer | Q |
| It hath no power to cause thee fear | Q |
| Nor is its censure worth a tear | R |
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| Hence 'mid thy flowers books and trees | S |
| Strive not the multitude to please | S |
| Regard its humors as the spray | G |
| Which winds blow lightly o'er the bay | G |
| Live thine own life and win the day | G |
John L. Stoddard
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