The Ruined Cottage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSG TUVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2F2S G2IPH2I2VJ2K2L2M2N2J ASD2YD2O2P2M2Q2R2S2C MT2U2V2W2YDX2AY2Z2A3 Y2G2GB3C3D3E3F3G3GD2| None will dwell in that cottage for they say | A |
| Oppression reft it from an honest man | B |
| And that a curse clings to it Hence the vine | C |
| Trails its green weight of leaves upon the ground | D |
| Hence weeds are in the garden hence the hedge | E |
| Once sweet with honey suckle is half dead | F |
| And hence the gray moss on the apple tree | G |
| One once dwelt there who in his youth | H |
| Had been a soldier and when many days | I |
| Had passed he sought his native village | J |
| And sat down to end his days in peace | K |
| He had one child a little laughing thing | L |
| Whose dark eyes he said were like her mother's | M |
| She had left buried in a strange land | N |
| And time went on in comfort and content | O |
| And that fair girl had grown far taller | P |
| Than the red rose tree her father planted | Q |
| On her first English birth day He had trained it | R |
| Against an ash till it became his pride | S |
| It was so rich in blossom and in beauty | G |
| It was called the tree of Isabel 'Twas an appeal | T |
| To all the finer feelings of the heart | U |
| To mark their quiet happiness their home | V |
| In truth the house of love and more than all | W |
| To see them on the Sabbath when they came | X |
| Among the first to church And Isabel | Y |
| With her bright colour and her clear blue eyes | Z |
| Bowed down so meekly in the house of prayer | A2 |
| And in the hymn her sweet voice audible | B2 |
| Her father looked so fond of her and then | C2 |
| From her looked up so thankfully to heaven | D2 |
| Then their small cottage was so very neat | E2 |
| Their garden filled with fruits and flowers and herbs | F2 |
| And in the winter there was no fireside | S |
| So cheerful as their own | G2 |
| But other days | I |
| And other fortunes came and evil power | P |
| They bore against it cheerfully and hoped | H2 |
| For better times but ruin came at last | I2 |
| And the old soldier left his dear home | V |
| And left it for a prison 'Twas in June | J2 |
| One of June's brightest days the bee the bird | K2 |
| The butterfly were on their lightest wings | L2 |
| The fruits had their first tinge of summer light | M2 |
| The sunny sky the very leaves seemed glad | N2 |
| But the old man looked back upon his cottage | J |
| And wept aloud They hurried him away | A |
| And the dear child that would not leave his side | S |
| They led him from the sight of the blue heaven | D2 |
| And the green grass into a low dark cell | Y |
| The windows shutting out the blessed sun | D2 |
| With iron grating and for the first time | O2 |
| He threw him on the bed and could not hear | P2 |
| His Isabel's good night | M2 |
| But the next morn | Q2 |
| She was the earliest at the prison gate | R2 |
| The last on whom it closed and her sweet voice | S2 |
| And sweeter smile made him forget to pine | C |
| She brought him every morning fresh wild flowers | M |
| But every morning he could mark her cheek | T2 |
| Grow paler and more pale and her low tones | U2 |
| Get fainter and more faint and a cold dew | V2 |
| Was on the hand he held One day he saw | W2 |
| The sun shine through the grating of his cell | Y |
| Yet Isabel came not At every sound | D |
| His heart beat took away his breath | X2 |
| Yet still she came not near him One sad day | A |
| He marked the dull street through the iron bars | Y2 |
| That shut him from the world At length | Z2 |
| He saw a coffin carried carelessly along | A3 |
| And he grew desperate He forced the bars | Y2 |
| And he stood on the street free and alone | G2 |
| He had no aim no wish for liberty | G |
| He only felt one want to see the corpse | B3 |
| That had no mourners When they set it down | C3 |
| Ere it was lowered into the new dug grave | D3 |
| A rush of passion came upon his soul | E3 |
| He tore off the lid and saw the face | F3 |
| Of Isabel and knew he had no child | G3 |
| He lay down by the coffin quietly | G |
| His heart was broken | D2 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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