The City Dead-house Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMBNKOPQR KST| BY the City Dead House by the gate | A |
| As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor | B |
| I curious pause for lo an outcast form a poor dead prostitute | C |
| brought | D |
| Her corpse they deposit unclaim'd it lies on the damp brick | E |
| pavement | F |
| The divine woman her body I see the Body I look on it alone | G |
| That house once full of passion and beauty all else I notice not | H |
| Nor stillness so cold nor running water from faucet nor odors | I |
| morbific impress me | J |
| But the house alone that wondrous house that delicate fair house | K |
| that ruin | L |
| That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built | M |
| Or white domed Capitol itself with majestic figure surmounted or | B |
| all the old high spired cathedrals | N |
| That little house alone more than them all poor desperate house | K |
| Fair fearful wreck tenement of a Soul itself a Soul | O |
| Unclaim'd avoided house take one breath from my tremulous lips | P |
| Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you | Q |
| Dead house of love house of madness and sin crumbled crush'd | R |
| House of life erewhile talking and laughing but ah poor house | K |
| dead even then | S |
| Months years an echoing garnish'd house but dead dead dead | T |
Walt Whitman
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