The Cottage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCB DDEDFFE CCGCEEG HHIHJJI KKLKDDL| Here in turn succeed and rule | A |
| Carter smith and village fool | A |
| Then again the place is known | B |
| As tavern shop and Sunday school | A |
| Now somehow it's come to me | C |
| To light the fire and hold the key | C |
| Here in Heaven to reign alone | B |
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| All the walls are white with lime | D |
| Big blue periwinkles climb | D |
| And kiss the crumbling window sill | E |
| Snug inside I sit and rhyme | D |
| Planning poem book or fable | F |
| At my darling beech wood table | F |
| Fresh with bluebells from the hill | E |
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| Through the window I can see | C |
| Rooks above the cherry tree | C |
| Sparrows in the violet bed | G |
| Bramble bush and bumble bee | C |
| And old red bracken smoulders still | E |
| Among boulders on the hill | E |
| Far too bright to seem quite dead | G |
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| But old Death who can't forget | H |
| Waits his time and watches yet | H |
| Waits and watches by the door | I |
| Look he's got a great new net | H |
| And when my fighting starts afresh | J |
| Stouter cord and smaller mesh | J |
| Won't be cheated as before | I |
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| Nor can kindliness of Spring | K |
| Flowers that smile nor birds that sing | K |
| Bumble bee nor butterfly | L |
| Nor grassy hill nor anything | K |
| Of magic keep me safe to rhyme | D |
| In this Heaven beyond my time | D |
| No for Death is waiting by | L |
Robert Graves
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