The Opening Of The Piano Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGDD DDHH IIJJ DDKK| IN the little southern parlor of tbe house you may have seen | A |
| With the gambrel roof and the gable looking westward to the green | A |
| At the side toward the sunset with the window on its right | B |
| Stood the London made piano I am dreaming of to night | B |
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| Ah me how I remember the evening when it came | C |
| What a cry of eager voices what a group of cheeks in flame | C |
| When the wondrous box was opened that had come from over seas | D |
| With its smell of mastic varnish and its flash of ivory keys | D |
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| Then the children all grew fretful in the restlessness of joy | E |
| For the boy would push his sister and the sister crowd the boy | E |
| Till the father asked for quiet in his grave paternal way | F |
| But the mother hushed the tumult with the words Now Mary play | F |
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| For the dear soul knew that music was a very sovereign balm | G |
| She had sprinkled it over Sorrow and seen its brow grow calm | G |
| In the days of slender harpsichords with tapping tinkling quills | D |
| Or carolling to her spinet with its thin metallic thrills | D |
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| So Mary the household minstrel who always loved to please | D |
| Sat down to the new Clementi and struck the glittering keys | D |
| Hushed were the children's voices and every eye grew dim | H |
| As floating from lip and finger arose the Vesper Hymn | H |
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| Catharine child of a neighbor curly and rosy red | I |
| Wedded since and a widow something like ten years dead | I |
| Hearing a gush of music such as none before | J |
| Steals from her mother's chamber and peeps at the open door | J |
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| Just as the Jubilate in threaded whisper dies | D |
| Open it open it lady the little maiden cries | D |
| For she thought 't was a singing creature caged in a box she heard | K |
| Open it open it lady and let me see the bird | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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