Empty Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBC DEEDE CBBCB A BFFBF GHIGH JCCJC| I | A |
| - | |
| THERE S not a person in the street | B |
| This merry making summer day | C |
| The houses stand in dull array | C |
| No profit on their doors to beat | B |
| For all their owners are away | C |
| - | |
| The gardens blossom white and red | D |
| All solitary in the sun | E |
| Save where some timid creatures run | E |
| Secure across the lawns to tread | D |
| No human dangers here to shun | E |
| - | |
| Since men have gone on holiday | C |
| Have left the still suburban street | B |
| For that wide park where people meet | B |
| In pleasures till the eve is grey | C |
| Oh but the home coming is sweet | B |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| There s not a person in the street | B |
| Where wandering in grief I go | F |
| These strange small houses set in row | F |
| Send out no human form to greet | B |
| No busy footfalls to and fro | F |
| - | |
| Tall poplars raise their shafts beside | G |
| And mingled shades and sunbeams bless | H |
| God s Acre in its quietness | I |
| God s town where men are drawn to bide | G |
| Untroubled by the world s distress | H |
| - | |
| There comes no opening of the gate | J |
| Though to my friend I plead and pray | C |
| Patience the trees and sunbeams say | C |
| Here only empty houses wait | J |
| While souls are keeping holiday | C |
Mary Colborne-veel
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