House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FAFA GAGA AHAH AIAI AJAJ KALA MBMB| Shall I sonnet sing you about myself | A |
| Do I live in a house you would like to see | B |
| Is it scant of gear has it store of pelf | A |
| Unlock my heart with a sonnet key | B |
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| Invite the world as my betters have done | C |
| Take notice this building remains on view | A |
| Its suites of reception every one | C |
| Its private apartment and bedroom too | A |
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| For a ticket apply to the Publisher | D |
| No thanking the public I must decline | E |
| A peep through my window if folk prefer | D |
| But please you no foot over threshold of mine | E |
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| I have mixed with a crowd and heard free talk | F |
| In a foreign land where an earthquake chanced | A |
| And a house stood gaping naught to balk | F |
| Alan's eye wherever he gazed or glanced | A |
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| The whole of the frontage shaven sheer | G |
| The inside gaped exposed to day | A |
| Right and wrong and common and queer | G |
| Bare as the palm of your hand it lay | A |
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| The owner Oh be had been crushed no doubt | A |
| Odd tables and chairs for a man of wealth | H |
| What a parcel of musty old books about | A |
| He smoked no wonder he lost his health | H |
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| I doubt if he bathed before he dressed | A |
| A brasier the pagan he burned perfumes | I |
| You see it is proved what the neighbors guessed | A |
| His wife and himself had separate rooms | I |
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| Friends the goodman of the house at least | A |
| Kept house to himself till an earthquake came | J |
| 'Tis the fall of its frontage permits you feast | A |
| On the inside arrangement you praise or blame | J |
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| Outside should suffice for evidence | K |
| And whoso desires to penetrate | A |
| Deeper must dive by the sprit sense | L |
| No optics like yours at any rate | A |
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| Hoity toity A street to explore | M |
| Your house the exception 'With this same key | B |
| Shakespeare unlocked his heart ' once more | M |
| Did Shakespeare If so the less Shakespeare he | B |
Robert Browning
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