A Ramshackle Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNCC| When the gusts are at play with the trees on the lawn | A |
| And the lights are put out in the vault of the night | B |
| When within all is snug for the curtains are drawn | A |
| And the fire is aglow and the lamps are alight | B |
| Sometimes as I muse from the place where I am | C |
| My thoughts fly away to a room near the Cam | C |
| - | |
| 'Tis a ramshackle room where a man might complain | D |
| Of a slope in the ceiling a rise in the floor | E |
| With a view on a court and a glimpse on a lane | D |
| And no end of cool wind through the chinks of the door | E |
| With a deep seated chair that I love to recall | F |
| And some groups of young oarsmen in shorts on the wall | F |
| - | |
| There's a fat jolly jar of tobacco some pipes | G |
| A meerschaum a briar a cherry a clay | H |
| There's a three handled cup fit for Audit or Swipes | G |
| When the breakfast is done and the plates cleared away | H |
| There's a litter of papers of books a scratch lot | I |
| Such as Plato and Dickens and Liddell and Scott | I |
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| And a crone in a bonnet that's more like a rag | J |
| From a mist of remembrance steps suddenly out | K |
| And her funny old tongue never ceases to wag | J |
| As she tidies the room where she bustles about | K |
| For a man may be strong and a man may be young | L |
| But he can't put a drag on a Bedmaker's tongue | L |
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| And oh there's a youngster who sits at his ease | M |
| In the hope which is vain that the tongue may run down | N |
| With his feet on the grate and a book on his knees | M |
| And his cheeks they are smooth and his hair it is brown | N |
| Then I sigh myself back to the place where I am | C |
| From that ramshackle room near the banks of the Cam | C |
R. C. Lehmann
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