The Apartment House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDCD| Severe against the pleasant arc of sky | A |
| The great stone box is cruelly displayed | B |
| The street becomes more dreary from its shade | B |
| And vagrant breezes touch its walls and die | A |
| Here sullen convicts in their chains might lie | A |
| Or slaves toil dumbly at some dreary trade | B |
| How worse than folly is their labor made | B |
| Who cleft the rocks that this might rise on high | A |
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| Yet as I look I see a woman's face | C |
| Gleam from a window far above the street | D |
| This is a house of homes a sacred place | C |
| By human passion made divinely sweet | D |
| How all the building thrills with sudden grace | C |
| Beneath the magic of Love's golden feet | D |
Joyce Kilmer
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