The Snowman In The Yard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFDGE FHFH IJIEJ KLMNOP QEQE| For Thomas Augustine Daly | A |
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| The Judge's house has a splendid porch with pillars and steps of stone | B |
| And the Judge has a lovely flowering hedge that came from across the seas | C |
| In the Hales' garage you could put my house and everything I own | B |
| And the Hales have a lawn like an emerald and a row of poplar trees | C |
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| Now I have only a little house and only a little lot | D |
| And only a few square yards of lawn with dandelions starred | E |
| But when Winter comes I have something there | F |
| that the Judge and the Hales have not | D |
| And it's better worth having than all their wealth | G |
| it's a snowman in the yard | E |
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| The Judge's money brings architects to make his mansion fair | F |
| The Hales have seven gardeners to make their roses grow | H |
| The Judge can get his trees from Spain and France and everywhere | F |
| And raise his orchids under glass in the midst of all the snow | H |
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| But I have something no architect or gardener ever made | I |
| A thing that is shaped by the busy touch of little mittened hands | J |
| And the Judge would give up his lonely estate where the level snow is laid | I |
| For the tiny house with the trampled yard | E |
| the yard where the snowman stands | J |
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| They say that after Adam and Eve were driven away in tears | K |
| To toil and suffer their life time through | L |
| because of the sin they sinned | M |
| The Lord made Winter to punish them for half their exiled years | N |
| To chill their blood with the snow and pierce | O |
| their flesh with the icy wind | P |
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| But we who inherit the primal curse and labour for our bread | Q |
| Have yet thank God the gift of Home though Eden's gate is barred | E |
| And through the Winter's crystal veil Love's roses blossom red | Q |
| For him who lives in a house that has a snowman in the yard | E |
Joyce Kilmer
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