The Old House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAC DEFEDF GHIHGJ KLMNKM OPPPOP| Quaint and forgotten by an unused road | A |
| An old house stands around its doors the dense | B |
| Blue iron weeds grow high | C |
| The chipmunks make a highway of its fence | B |
| And on its sunken flagstones slug and toad | A |
| Silent as lichens lie | C |
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| The timid snake upon its hearth's cool sand | D |
| Sleeps undisturbed the squirrel haunts its roof | E |
| And in the clapboard sides | F |
| Of closets dim with many a spider woof | E |
| Like the uncertain tapping of a hand | D |
| The beetle borer hides | F |
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| Above its lintel under mossy eaves | G |
| The mud wasps build their cells and in the floor | H |
| Of its neglected porch | I |
| The black bees nest Through each deserted door | H |
| Vague as a phantom's footsteps steal the leaves | G |
| And dropped cones of the larch | J |
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| But come with me when sunset's magic old | K |
| Transforms the ruin of that ancient house | L |
| When windows one by one | M |
| Like age's eyes that youth's love dreams arouse | N |
| Grow lairs of fire and glad mouths of gold | K |
| Its wide doors in the sun | M |
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| Or let us wait until each rain stained room | O |
| Is carpeted with moonlight pattened oft | P |
| With the deep boughs o'erhead | P |
| And through the house the wind goes rustling soft | P |
| As might the ghost a whisper of perfume | O |
| Of some sweet girl long dead | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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