The Dream-house Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMFNLOPQR STUVWXYNGZA2B2C2D2E2 F2G2E2H2DI2E2J2J2K2E 2E2L2E2E2E2TE2E2M2J2 GN2O2VJ2P2J2E2J2E2E2 J2E2J2E2Q2J2R2S2E2T2 E2H2GE2J2VJ2U2J2J2J2 E2V2W2X2J2J2Y2J2

Often we talk of the house that we will buildA
For airier and less jostled days than theseB
We chafe in and send Fancy roaming wideC
Down western valleys with a choosing eyeD
To hover upon this nook or on thatE
And let the mind like fingers pressing clayF
Shape and reshape the mould of an old desireG
Spur jogging Time conjure slow years to daysH
Until tall trees like those far fabled wallsI
Rise visibly to the mind's music HereJ
We scoop a terrace under hanging woodsK
Upon the generous slope of a green hillL
That gazes over alluring distancesM
Listen to our merry children at their playF
And see the shadow lengthen from our roofN
On plots of garden Fancy busy stillL
Sows colours for the seasons in those plotsO
And matches or contrasts the chosen leavesP
That are to shade our saunters the clean boughsQ
Of aromatic walnut the wild crabR
With after snows of blossom fiery fruitS
And beeches of a grander race beyond themT
Withdrawing into uninvaded woodU
But farther down our orchard falls to whereV
The stream makes a live murmur all day longW
Man is a builder born not for the shellX
That makes him armour against stripping windY
And frost and darkness for befriending roofN
And walls to sally from a bread getterG
No but as out of mere unmeaning soundZ
And the wild silence he has made himselfA2
Marvellous words and the order of sweet speechB2
Breathing and singing syllables that moveC2
Out of the caverns of his heart like wavesD2
Into the world beyond discovery soE2
Builds he projecting memory and strong hopeF2
And dear and dark experience into stoneG2
And the warm earth he digs in and reshapesE2
Dyeing them human and with a subtle touchH2
Discovering far kinships in the skyD
And the altering season till the very cloudI2
Brings its own shadow as to familiar hauntsE2
And the sun rests as on a place it soughtJ2
Earth also as with a soft step unperceivedJ2
Draws from her ancient silence nearer himK2
Sending wild birds to nest beneath his eavesE2
Or to shake songs about him as he walksE2
Shy friends the airy playmates of his joyL2
Caesars may hoist their towers and heave their wallsE2
Into a stark magnificence imposeE2
The aggrandised image of themselves as trumpetsE2
Shattering stillness We'll not envy themT
While there's a garden to companion usE2
And earth to meet us with her gentle mossE2
Upon our own walls They may entertainM2
Prodigally a thousand guests unpleasedJ2
But we have always one guest that is everG
Lovely and gracious and acceptableN2
Light As I lay upon a hill top's turfO2
I watched the wide light filling the round airV
And I was filled with its felicityJ2
O the carriage of the light among the cornP2
When the glory of the wind dishevels itJ2
How it filters into the dim domes of treesE2
Spilt down their green height shadows dropping goldJ2
How beautiful its way upon the hillsE2
At morning and at evening when the bladesE2
Of grass blow luminous every little bladeJ2
How the flowers drink it happy to the rootsE2
This lovely guest is ours to lodge and weJ2
Will build for it escapes and entrancesE2
And corners to waylay the early beamQ2
And keep its last of lingering here to acceptJ2
Its royalty of fullness there to catchR2
In dusky cool one lustre on the floorS2
Doubling itself in echoed radiancesE2
Mellow as an old golden wine on wallT2
And ceiling oh how gentle a touch it hasE2
On choice books and smooth burnished wood in suchH2
Human captivity When the winds roar overG
What sudden splendours toss into our peaceE2
With reappearing victories O the gloryJ2
Of morning through a doorway on the hairV
Neck arms young movements of a laughing childJ2
O mystery of brightness when we wakeU2
In the night hush and see upon the blindJ2
The trembling of the shadow of a treeJ2
Kissed by the moon that from the buried lightJ2
Wooes ghostliness of beauty and receivesE2
And whispers it to all the world asleepV2
Whatever it be made of this dreamed homeW2
Upon a hill I know not in what valeX2
Shall be a little palace for the lightJ2
To stray and sleep in and be blest for itJ2
So thought I then I thought O my dear LoveY2
Surely I am that house and you the lightJ2

Robert Laurence Binyon



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