Night In The Old Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC EFG CBC| When the wasting embers redden the chimney breast | A |
| And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me | B |
| And from hall and parlour the living have gone to their rest | A |
| My perished people who housed them here come back to me | B |
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| They come and seat them around in their mouldy places | C |
| Now and then bending towards me a glance of wistfulness | D |
| A strange upbraiding smile upon all their faces | C |
| And in the bearing of each a passive tristfulness | C |
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| 'Do you uphold me lingering and languishing here | E |
| A pale late plant of your once strong stock ' I say to them | F |
| 'A thinker of crooked thoughts upon Life in the sere | G |
| An on That which consigns men to night after showing the day to them ' | - |
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| ' O let be the Wherefore We fevered our years not thus | C |
| Take of Life what it grants without question ' they answer me seemingly | B |
| 'Enjoy suffer wait spread the table here freely like us | C |
| And satisfied placid unfretting watch Time away beamingly ' | - |
Thomas Hardy
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