In An Old Farmhouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IIIIIIII JKJKIILL IKIKMMKK

Outside the afterlight's lucent roseA
Is smiting the hills and brimming the valleysB
And shadows are stealing across the snowsA
From the mystic gloom of the pineland alleysB
Glamour of mingled night and dayC
Over the wide white world has swayC
And through their prisoning azure barsD
Gaze the calm cold eyes of the early starsD
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But here in this long low raftered roomE
Where the blood red light is crouching and leapingF
The fire that colors the heart of the gloomE
The lost sunshine of old summers is keepingF
The wealth of forests that held in feeG
Many a season's rare alchemyG
And the glow and gladness without a nameH
That dwells in the deeps of unstinted flameH
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Gather we now round the opulent blazeI
With the face that loves and the heart that rejoicesI
Dream we once more of the old time daysI
Listen once more to the old time voicesI
From the clutch of the cities and paths of the seaI
We have come again to our own roof treeI
And forgetting the loves of the stranger landsI
We yearn for the clasp of our kindred's handsI
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There are tales to tell there are tears to shedJ
There are children's flower faces and women's sweet laughterK
There's a chair left vacant for one who is deadJ
Where the firelight crimsons the ancient rafterK
What reck we of the world that waitsI
With care and clamor beyond our gatesI
We with our own in this witching lightL
Who keep our tryst with the past tonightL
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Ho how the elf flames laugh in gleeI
Closer yet let us draw togetherK
Holding our revel of memoryI
In the guiling twilight of winter weatherK
Out on the waste the wind is chillM
And the moon swings low o'er the western hillM
But old hates die and old loves burn higherK
With the wane and flash of the farmhouse fireK

Lucy Maud Montgomery



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