Sound And Sights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEEFFGGHIIIJK JL M ANANOPOPQQRRDDDJJJJS J| Often when I wake at night | A |
| I can hear the strangest sounds | B |
| Stealthy noises left and right | A |
| As of some one going his rounds | B |
| On the stairs there comes a crack | C |
| As if some one mounted there | D |
| Then the door creaks and the back | C |
| Settles of the rocking chair | D |
| As if some one had sat down | E |
| Then I get up in my gown | E |
| Run to mother hide my head | F |
| Snuggle down by her in bed | F |
| And she says to me 'My dear | G |
| There is nothing here to fear | G |
| All the noises that you hear | H |
| Are the old house and the weather | I |
| Dry old weather | I |
| Having a little talk together | I |
| You just heard the old house stretching | J |
| Waking up to have a chat | K |
| Seems to me that it is catching | J |
| Don't wake up again for that ' | L |
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| II | M |
| - | |
| And again I wake at night | A |
| And can see the queerest things | N |
| In the gas jet's lowered light | A |
| The tall mantle with its rings | N |
| And its mirror seems a face | O |
| With a monster eye and nose | P |
| And a mouth the fireplace | O |
| Making faces at me Those | P |
| Chairs against the wall move out | Q |
| Limping as if lame with gout | Q |
| And I'm scared as scared can be | R |
| Call till father comes to me | R |
| And he says 'There's nothing there | D |
| Nothing that could hurt or scare | D |
| And that mantle and that chair | D |
| Guess that they were only courting | J |
| Queerly courting | J |
| While the other was cavorting | J |
| You just saw what these were thinking | J |
| Longing there to hug and kiss | S |
| Seems to me you caught them winking | J |
| But don't wake again for this ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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