The Kitchen Chimney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE FGHG IJKL FMCM| Builder in building the little house | A |
| In every way you may please yourself | B |
| But please please me in the kitchen chimney | C |
| Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf | B |
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| However far you must go for bricks | D |
| Whatever they cost a piece or a pound | E |
| But me enough for a full length chimney | C |
| And build the chimney clear from the ground | E |
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| It's not that I'm greatly afraid of fire | F |
| But I never heard of a house that throve | G |
| And I know of one that didn't thrive | H |
| Where the chimney started above the stove | G |
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| And I dread the ominous stain of tar | I |
| That there always is on the papered walls | J |
| And the smell of fire drowned in rain | K |
| That there always is when the chimney's false | L |
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| A shelf's for a clock or vase or picture | F |
| But I don't see why it should have to bear | M |
| A chimney that only would serve to remind me | C |
| Of castles I used to build in air | M |
Robert Lee Frost
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