The Auction Sale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD BEBEFGHG IJIJKLKL MNMNFOHO PQPQRSRS TUTUVWVW XYZYA2GA2G B2C2B2C2FGHG| Her little head just topped the window sill | A |
| She even mounted on a stool maybe | B |
| She pressed against the pane as children will | A |
| And watched us playing oh so wistfully | B |
| And then I missed her for a month or more | C |
| And idly thought She's gone away no doubt | D |
| Until a hearse drew up beside the door | C |
| I saw a tiny coffin carried out | D |
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| And after that towards dusk I'd often see | B |
| Behind the blind another face that looked | E |
| Eyes of a young wife watching anxiously | B |
| Then rushing back to where her dinner cooked | E |
| She often gulped it down alone I fear | F |
| Within her heart the sadness of despair | G |
| For near to midnight I would vaguely hear | H |
| A lurching step a stumbling on the stair | G |
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| These little dramas of the common day | I |
| A man weak willed and fore ordained to fail | J |
| The window's empty now they've gone away | I |
| And yonder see their furniture's for sale | J |
| To all the world their door is open wide | K |
| And round and round the bargain hunters roam | L |
| And peer and gloat like vultures avid eyed | K |
| Above the corpse of what was once a home | L |
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| So reverent I go from room to room | M |
| And see the patient care the tender touch | N |
| The love that sought to brighten up the gloom | M |
| The woman courage tested overmuch | N |
| Amid those things so intimate and dear | F |
| Where now the mob invades with brutal tread | O |
| I think What happiness is buried here | H |
| What dreams are withered and what hopes are dead | O |
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| Oh woman dear and were you sweet and glad | P |
| Over the lining of your little nest | Q |
| What ponderings and proud ideas you had | P |
| What visions of a shrine of peace and rest | Q |
| For there's his easy chair upon the rug | R |
| His reading lamp his pipe rack on the wall | S |
| All that you could devise to make him snug | R |
| And yet you could not hold him with it all | S |
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| Ah patient heart what homelike joys you planned | T |
| To stay him by the dull domestic flame | U |
| Those silken cushions that you worked by hand | T |
| When you had time before the baby came | U |
| Oh how you wove around him cozy spells | V |
| And schemed so hard to keep him home of nights | W |
| Aye every touch and turn some story tells | V |
| Of sweet conspiracies and dead delights | W |
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| And here upon the scratched piano stool | X |
| Tied in a bundle are the songs you sung | Y |
| That cozy that you worked in colored wool | Z |
| The Spanish lace you made when you were young | Y |
| And lots of modern novels cheap reprints | A2 |
| And little dainty knick knacks everywhere | G |
| And silken bows and curtains of gay chintz | A2 |
| And oh her tiny crib her folding chair | G |
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| Sweet woman dear and did your heart not break | B2 |
| To leave this precious home you made in vain | C2 |
| Poor shabby things so prized for old times' sake | B2 |
| With all their memories of love and pain | C2 |
| Alas while shouts the raucous auctioneer | F |
| And rat faced dames are prying everywhere | G |
| The echo of old joy is all I hear | H |
| All all I see just heartbreak and despair | G |
Robert William Service
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