Starlings On The Roof Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCB DDD EEE FFF GGG| No smoke spreads out of this chimney pot | A |
| The people who lived here have left the spot | A |
| And others are coming who knew them not | A |
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| If you listen anon with an ear intent | B |
| The voices you'll find will be different | C |
| From the well known ones of those who went | B |
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| Why did they go Their tones so bland | D |
| Were quite familiar to our band | D |
| The comers we shall not understand | D |
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| They look for a new life rich and strange | E |
| They do not know that let them range | E |
| Wherever they may they will get no change | E |
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| They will drag their house gear ever so far | F |
| In their search for a home no miseries mar | F |
| They will find that as they were they are | F |
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| That every hearth has a ghost alack | G |
| And can be but the scene of a bivouac | G |
| Till they move perforce no time to pack | G |
Thomas Hardy
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