The Thatch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKK LLMMNOOPPQQQQRR| Out alone in the winter rain | A |
| Intent on giving and taking pain | A |
| But never was I far out of sight | B |
| Of a certain upper window light | B |
| The light was what it was all about | C |
| I would not go in till the light went out | C |
| It would not go out till I came in | D |
| Well we should wee which one would win | D |
| We should see which one would be first to yield | E |
| The world was black invisible field | E |
| The rain by rights was snow for cold | F |
| The wind was another layer of mold | F |
| But the strangest thing in the thick old thatch | G |
| Where summer birds had been given hatch | G |
| had fed in chorus and lived to fledge | H |
| Some still were living in hermitage | I |
| And as I passed along the eaves | J |
| So low I brushed the straw with my sleeves | J |
| I flushed birds out of hole after hole | K |
| Into the darkness It grieved my soul | K |
| It started a grief within a grief | L |
| To think their case was beyond relief | L |
| They could not go flying about in search | M |
| Of their nest again nor find a perch | M |
| They must brood where they fell in mulch and mire | N |
| Trusting feathers and inward fire | O |
| Till daylight made it safe for a flyer | O |
| My greater grief was by so much reduced | P |
| As I though of them without nest or roost | P |
| That was how that grief started to melt | Q |
| They tell me the cottage where we dwelt | Q |
| Its wind torn thatch goes now unmended | Q |
| Its life of hundred of years has ended | Q |
| By letting the rain I knew outdoors | R |
| In on to the upper chamber floors | R |
Robert Lee Frost
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