Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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The Old House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAC DEFEDF GHIHGJ KLMNKM OPPPOP

Quaint and forgotten by an unused roadA
An old house stands around its doors the denseB
Blue iron weeds grow highC
The chipmunks make a highway of its fenceB
And on its sunken flagstones slug and toadA
Silent as lichens lieC
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The timid snake upon its hearth's cool sandD
Sleeps undisturbed the squirrel haunts its roofE
And in the clapboard sidesF
Of closets dim with many a spider woofE
Like the uncertain tapping of a handD
The beetle borer hidesF
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Above its lintel under mossy eavesG
The mud wasps build their cells and in the floorH
Of its neglected porchI
The black bees nest Through each deserted doorH
Vague as a phantom's footsteps steal the leavesG
And dropped cones of the larchJ
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But come with me when sunset's magic oldK
Transforms the ruin of that ancient houseL
When windows one by oneM
Like age's eyes that youth's love dreams arouseN
Grow lairs of fire and glad mouths of goldK
Its wide doors in the sunM
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Or let us wait until each rain stained roomO
Is carpeted with moonlight pattened oftP
With the deep boughs o'erheadP
And through the house the wind goes rustling softP
As might the ghost a whisper of perfumeO
Of some sweet girl long deadP

Madison Julius Cawein



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