The House With Nobody In It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE DDFF GGHH IIJJ EKKLL AAMM| Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track | A |
| I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black | A |
| I suppose I've passed it a hundred times but I always stop for a minute | B |
| And look at the house the tragic house the house with nobody in it | C |
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| I never have seen a haunted house but I hear there are such things | D |
| That they hold the talk of spirits their mirth and sorrowings | D |
| I know this house isn't haunted and I wish it were I do | E |
| For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two | E |
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| This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass | D |
| And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass | D |
| It needs new paint and shingles and the vines should be trimmed and tied | F |
| But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside | F |
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| If I had a lot of money and all my debts were paid | G |
| I'd put a gang of men to work with brush and saw and spade | G |
| I'd buy that place and fix it up the way it used to be | H |
| And I'd find some people who wanted a home and give it to them free | H |
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| Now a new house standing empty with staring window and door | I |
| Looks idle perhaps and foolish like a hat on its block in the store | I |
| But there's nothing mournful about it it cannot be sad and lone | J |
| For the lack of something within it that it has never known | J |
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| But a house that has done what a house should do | E |
| a house that has sheltered life | K |
| That has put its loving wooden arms around a man and his wife | K |
| A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet | L |
| Is the saddest sight when it's left alone that ever your eyes could meet | L |
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| So whenever I go to Suffern along the Erie track | A |
| I never go by the empty house without stopping and looking back | A |
| Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart | M |
| For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a house with a broken heart | M |
Joyce Kilmer
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Carol Wallace: I am now 78 years old. When I was in 4 th grade in Indianapolis, I memorized thus poem. Was not a school assignment, but I did it because I just loved it. My teacher asked me to recite it to the class nearly 70 years ago. I never who wrote it, but just this week on the Waltons, it was mentioned.
[email protected]: I love this poem, it's so revelent to myself ❤️
Harry Sulley: I was first introduced to this beautiful poem by my wife some years ago and fell in love with it from the beginning. Now that I'm in my eighties, I can't get through it without shedding a tear or two. I just love it.
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