In An Old Farmhouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IIIIIIII JKJKIILL IKIKMMKK| Outside 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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