Property Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBG HIHIJGJG GKGKCLCLThe 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 William Service
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