The Strange House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJAKAK CLCEMDND ODODEJEJ| I hear the piano playing | A |
| Just as a ghost might play | B |
| O but what are you saying | A |
| There's no piano to day | B |
| Their old one was sold and broken | C |
| Years past it went amiss | D |
| I heard it or shouldn't have spoken | C |
| A strange house this | D |
| - | |
| I catch some undertone here | E |
| From some one out of sight | F |
| Impossible we are alone here | E |
| And shall be through the night | F |
| The parlour door what stirred it | G |
| No one no soul's in range | H |
| But anyhow I heard it | G |
| And it seems strange | H |
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| Seek my own room I cannot | I |
| A figure is on the stair | J |
| What figure Nay I scan not | I |
| Any one lingering there | J |
| A bough outside is waving | A |
| And that's its shade by the moon | K |
| Well all is strange I am craving | A |
| Strength to leave soon | K |
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| Ah maybe you've some vision | C |
| Of showings beyond our sphere | L |
| Some sight sense intuition | C |
| Of what once happened here | E |
| The house is old they've hinted | M |
| It once held two love thralls | D |
| And they may have imprinted | N |
| Their dreams on its walls | D |
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| They were I think 'twas told me | O |
| Queer in their works and ways | D |
| The teller would often hold me | O |
| With weird tales of those days | D |
| Some folk can not abide here | E |
| But we we do not care | J |
| Who loved laughed wept or died here | E |
| Knew joy or despair | J |
Thomas Hardy
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