Property Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBG HIHIJGJG GKGKCLCL| The red roofed house of dream design | A |
| Looks three ways on the sea | B |
| For fifty years I've made it mine | A |
| And held it part of me | B |
| The pines I planted in my youth | C |
| Triumpantly are tall | D |
| Yet now I know with sorry sooth | C |
| I have to leave it all | D |
| - | |
| Hard hewn from out the living rock | E |
| And salty from the tide | F |
| My house has braved the tempest shock | E |
| With hardihood and pride | F |
| Each nook is memoried to me | B |
| I've loved its every stone | G |
| And cried to it exultantly | B |
| My own my very own | G |
| - | |
| Poor fool To think that I possess | H |
| I have but cannot hold | I |
| And all that's mine is less and less | H |
| My own as I grow old | I |
| My home shall ring with childish cheers | J |
| When I shall leave it lone | G |
| My house will bide a hundred years | J |
| When I am in the bone | G |
| - | |
| Alas No thing can be my own | G |
| At most a life long lease | K |
| Is all I hold a little loan | G |
| From Time that soon will cease | K |
| For now by faint and failing breath | C |
| I feel that I must go | L |
| Old House You've never known a death | C |
| Well now's your hour to know | L |
Robert Service
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