In An Old Farmhouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IIIIIIII JKJKIILL IKIKMMKKOutside the afterlight's lucent rose | A |
Is smiting the hills and brimming the valleys | B |
And shadows are stealing across the snows | A |
From the mystic gloom of the pineland alleys | B |
Glamour of mingled night and day | C |
Over the wide white world has sway | C |
And through their prisoning azure bars | D |
Gaze the calm cold eyes of the early stars | D |
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But here in this long low raftered room | E |
Where the blood red light is crouching and leaping | F |
The fire that colors the heart of the gloom | E |
The lost sunshine of old summers is keeping | F |
The wealth of forests that held in fee | G |
Many a season's rare alchemy | G |
And the glow and gladness without a name | H |
That dwells in the deeps of unstinted flame | H |
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Gather we now round the opulent blaze | I |
With the face that loves and the heart that rejoices | I |
Dream we once more of the old time days | I |
Listen once more to the old time voices | I |
From the clutch of the cities and paths of the sea | I |
We have come again to our own roof tree | I |
And forgetting the loves of the stranger lands | I |
We yearn for the clasp of our kindred's hands | I |
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There are tales to tell there are tears to shed | J |
There are children's flower faces and women's sweet laughter | K |
There's a chair left vacant for one who is dead | J |
Where the firelight crimsons the ancient rafter | K |
What reck we of the world that waits | I |
With care and clamor beyond our gates | I |
We with our own in this witching light | L |
Who keep our tryst with the past tonight | L |
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Ho how the elf flames laugh in glee | I |
Closer yet let us draw together | K |
Holding our revel of memory | I |
In the guiling twilight of winter weather | K |
Out on the waste the wind is chill | M |
And the moon swings low o'er the western hill | M |
But old hates die and old loves burn higher | K |
With the wane and flash of the farmhouse fire | K |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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