The Intruder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEE FFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJ| THERE is a smell of roses in the room | A |
| Tea roses dead of bloom | A |
| An invalid she sits there in the gloom | A |
| And contemplates her doom | A |
| The pattern of the paper and the grain | B |
| Of carpet with its stain | B |
| Have stamped themselves like fever on her brain | B |
| And grown a part of pain | B |
| It has been long so long since that one died | C |
| Or sat there by her side | C |
| She felt so lonely lost she would have cried | C |
| But all her tears were dried | C |
| A knock came on the door she hardly heard | D |
| And then a whispered word | D |
| And someone entered at which like a bird | D |
| Her caged heart cried and stirred | D |
| And then she heard a voice she was not wrong | E |
| His voice alive and strong | E |
| She listened while the silence filled with song | E |
| Oh she had waited long | E |
| She dared not turn to see she dared not look | F |
| But slowly closed her book | F |
| And waited for his kiss could scarcely brook | F |
| The weary time he took | F |
| There was no one remembered her no one | G |
| But him beneath the sun | G |
| Who then had entered entered but to shun | G |
| Her whose long work was done | G |
| She raised her eyes and no one Yet she felt | H |
| A presence near that smelt | H |
| Like faded roses and that seemed to melt | H |
| Into her soul that knelt | H |
| She could not see but knew that he was there | I |
| Smoothing her hands and hair | I |
| Filling with scents of roses all the air | I |
| Standing beside her chair | I |
| And so they found her sitting quietly | J |
| Her book upon her knee | J |
| Staring before her as if she could see | J |
| What was it Death or he | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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