The House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQR| There is no architect | A |
| Can build as the Muse can | B |
| She is skilful to select | A |
| Materials for her plan | B |
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| Slow and warily to choose | C |
| Rafters of immortal pine | D |
| Or cedar incorruptible | E |
| Worthy her design | D |
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| She threads dark Alpine forests | F |
| Or valleys by the sea | G |
| In many lands with painful steps | H |
| Ere she can find a tree | G |
| - | |
| She ransacks mines and ledges | I |
| And quarries every rock | J |
| To hew the famous adamant | K |
| For each eternal block | J |
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| She lays her beams in music | L |
| In music every one | M |
| To the cadence of the whirling world | N |
| Which dances round the sun | M |
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| That so they shall not be displaced | O |
| By lapses or by wars | P |
| But for the love of happy souls | Q |
| Outlive the newest stars | R |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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