In The Garret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKLKLHDMDAHAH NONOPQPQRSRSTH H UVUVWXWXYOYOWHWH WZWZIWIWA2WA2WB2HB2H ABABC2OC2OD2WD2WE2HE 2HFour little chests all in a row | A |
Dim with dust and worn by time | B |
All fashioned and filled long ago | A |
By children now in their prime | B |
Four little keys hung side by side | C |
With faded ribbons brave and gay | D |
When fastened there with childish pride | C |
Long ago on a rainy day | D |
Four little names one on each lid | E |
Carved out by a boyish hand | F |
And underneath there lieth hid | E |
Histories of the happy band | F |
Once playing here and pausing oft | G |
To hear the sweet refrain | H |
That came and went on the roof aloft | G |
In the falling summer rain | H |
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'Meg' on the first lid smooth and fair | I |
I look in with loving eyes | J |
For folded here with well known care | I |
A goodly gathering lies | J |
The record of a peaceful life | K |
Gifts to gentle child and girl | L |
A bridal gown lines to a wife | K |
A tiny shoe a baby curl | L |
No toys in this first chest remain | H |
For all are carried away | D |
In their old age to join again | M |
In another small Meg's play | D |
Ah happy mother Well I know | A |
You hear like a sweet refrain | H |
Lullabies ever soft and low | A |
In the falling summer rain | H |
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'Jo' on the next lid scratched and worn | N |
And within a motley store | O |
Of headless dolls of schoolbooks torn | N |
Birds and beasts that speak no more | O |
Spoils brought home from the fairy ground | P |
Only trod by youthful feet | Q |
Dreams of a future never found | P |
Memories of a past still sweet | Q |
Half writ poems stories wild | R |
April letters warm and cold | S |
Diaries of a wilful child | R |
Hints of a woman early old | S |
A woman in a lonely home | T |
Hearing like a sad refrain | H |
'Be worthy love and love will come ' | - |
In the falling summer rain | H |
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My Beth the dust is always swept | U |
From the lid that bears your name | V |
As if by loving eyes that wept | U |
By careful hands that often came | V |
Death canonized for us one saint | W |
Ever less human than divine | X |
And still we lay with tender plaint | W |
Relics in this household shrine | X |
The silver bell so seldom rung | Y |
The little cap which last she wore | O |
The fair dead Catherine that hung | Y |
By angels borne above her door | O |
The songs she sang without lament | W |
In her prison house of pain | H |
Forever are they sweetly blent | W |
With the falling summer rain | H |
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Upon the last lid's polished field | W |
Legend now both fair and true | Z |
A gallant knight bears on his shield | W |
'Amy' in letters gold and blue | Z |
Within lie snoods that bound her hair | I |
Slippers that have danced their last | W |
Faded flowers laid by with care | I |
Fans whose airy toils are past | W |
Gay valentines all ardent flames | A2 |
Trifles that have borne their part | W |
In girlish hopes and fears and shames | A2 |
The record of a maiden heart | W |
Now learning fairer truer spells | B2 |
Hearing like a blithe refrain | H |
The silver sound of bridal bells | B2 |
In the falling summer rain | H |
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Four little chests all in a row | A |
Dim with dust and worn by time | B |
Four women taught by weal and woe | A |
To love and labor in their prime | B |
Four sisters parted for an hour | C2 |
None lost one only gone before | O |
Made by love's immortal power | C2 |
Nearest and dearest evermore | O |
Oh when these hidden stores of ours | D2 |
Lie open to the Father's sight | W |
May they be rich in golden hours | D2 |
Deeds that show fairer for the light | W |
Lives whose brave music long shall ring | E2 |
Like a spirit stirring strain | H |
Souls that shall gladly soar and sing | E2 |
In the long sunshine after rain | H |
Louisa May Alcott
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