The Old House In The Wood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK ALAL MNMN OPOQ RSRS TUTR VWVW XYXY FZFZ| Weeds and dead leaves and leaves the Autumn stains | A |
| With hues of rust and rose whence moisture weeps | B |
| Gnarl'd thorns from which the knotted haw fruit rains | A |
| On paths the gray moss heaps | B |
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| One golden flower like a dreamy thought | C |
| In the sad mind of Age makes bright the wood | D |
| And near it like a fancy Childhood fraught | C |
| The toadstool's jaunty hood | D |
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| Webs in whose snares the nimble spiders crouch | E |
| Waiting the prey that comes moon winged with night | F |
| Slugs and the snail which trails the mushroom's pouch | E |
| That marks the wood with white | F |
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| An old gaunt house round which the trees decay | G |
| Its porches fallen and its windows gone | H |
| Starts out at you as if to bar the way | G |
| Or bid you hurry on | I |
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| A picket fence grim as a skeleton arm | J |
| Is flung around a weed wild garden place | K |
| The gate o'er which the rose once hung its charm | J |
| Gapes in an empty space | K |
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| Here nothing that was beauty's now remains | A |
| Old death and sorrow have made all their own | L |
| And life and love who wrought here for their pains | A |
| Have nothingness alone | L |
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| I stand before the shattered fence and gaze | M |
| All all is silent now where once was noise | N |
| Of household duties gossip of kind days | M |
| And little children's joys | N |
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| Then suddenly I see a shadow slip | O |
| From out the house A ghost of bygone years | P |
| One finger lifted to its pallid lip | O |
| It passes me with tears | Q |
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| It passes me 'mid whirling leaves and rain | R |
| Between the trees I see it gleam and glide | S |
| I know it for the dream which once in vain | R |
| My heart had made its guide | S |
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| Was it for this that I had come the blind | T |
| Old ways of life back to Love's house again | U |
| The house of Memory there again to find | T |
| The dream that proved in vain | R |
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| A will o' wisp a faery fire a spark | V |
| That led me where I knew not and at last | W |
| Would leave me lost within the woodland dark | V |
| 'Mid shadows of the past | W |
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| Again I followed and again it failed | X |
| And night came on And then once more it seemed | Y |
| That all was lost that nothing more availed | X |
| Wen lo a window gleamed | Y |
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| And I was home Thank God for love and light | F |
| Set inthe window of the days that were | Z |
| And for the dream though vain that through the night | F |
| Leads back to home and her | Z |
Madison Julius Cawein
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