The House That Was Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDDFDFGHGH| Of the old house only a few crumbled | A |
| Courses of brick smothered in nettle and dock | B |
| Or a shaped stone lying mossy where it tumbled | A |
| Sprawling bramble and saucy thistle mock | B |
| What once was fire lit floor and private charm | C |
| Whence seen in a windowed picture were hills fading | D |
| At night and all was memory coloured and warm | E |
| And voices talked secure of the wind's invading | D |
| Of the old garden only a stray shining | D |
| Of daffodil flames among April's Cuckoo flowers | F |
| Or clustered aconite mixt with weeds entwining | D |
| But dark and lofty a royal cedar towers | F |
| By homelier thorns and whether the rain drifts | G |
| Or sun scortches he holds the downs in ken | H |
| The western vales his branchy tiers he lifts | G |
| Older than many a generation of men | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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