The Two Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKM NONO PQPQ RSTS UVUU QSQS WJUB XYYY NSNS WZWZ| In the heart of night | A |
| When farers were not near | B |
| The left house said to the house on the right | A |
| I have marked your rise O smart newcomer here | C |
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| Said the right cold eyed | D |
| Newcomer here I am | E |
| Hence haler than you with your cracked old hide | D |
| Loose casements wormy beams and doors that jam | E |
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| Modern my wood | F |
| My hangings fair of hue | G |
| While my windows open as they should | F |
| And water pipes thread all my chambers through | G |
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| Your gear is gray | H |
| Your face wears furrows untold | I |
| Yours might mourned the other if you held brother | J |
| The Presences from aforetime that I hold | I |
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| You have not known | K |
| Men's lives deaths toils and teens | L |
| You are but a heap of stick and stone | K |
| A new house has no sense of the have beens | M |
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| Void as a drum | N |
| You stand I am packed with these | O |
| Though strangely living dwellers who come | N |
| See not the phantoms all my substance sees | O |
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| Visible in the morning | P |
| Stand they when dawn drags in | Q |
| Visible at night yet hint or warning | P |
| Of these thin elbowers few of the inmates win | Q |
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| Babes new brought forth | R |
| Obsess my rooms straight stretched | S |
| Lank corpses ere outborne to earth | T |
| Yea throng they as when first from the 'Byss upfetched | S |
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| Dancers and singers | U |
| Throb in me now as once | V |
| Rich noted throats and gossamered fingers | U |
| Of heels the learned in love lore and the dunce | U |
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| Note here within | Q |
| The bridegroom and the bride | S |
| Who smile and greet their friends and kin | Q |
| And down my stairs depart for tracks untried | S |
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| Where such inbe | W |
| A dwelling's character | J |
| Takes theirs and a vague semblancy | U |
| To them in all its limbs and light and atmosphere | B |
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| Yet the blind folk | X |
| My tenants who come and go | Y |
| In the flesh mid these with souls unwoke | Y |
| Of such sylph like surrounders do not know | Y |
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| Will the day come | N |
| Said the new one awestruck faint | S |
| When I shall lodge shades dim and dumb | N |
| And with such spectral guests become acquaint | S |
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| That will it boy | W |
| Such shades will people thee | Z |
| Each in his misery irk or joy | W |
| And print on thee their presences as on me | Z |
Thomas Hardy
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