The Empty House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEE FFGHIIIIJJ KKKKLLII| See this house how dark it is | A |
| Beneath its vast boughed trees | B |
| Not one trembling leaflet cries | C |
| To that Watcher in the skies | C |
| Remove remove thy searching gaze | D |
| Innocent of heaven s ways | D |
| Brood not Moon so wildly bright | E |
| On secrets hidden from sight | E |
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| Secrets sighs the night wind | F |
| Vacancy is all I find | F |
| Every keyhole I have made | G |
| Wails a summons faint and sad | H |
| No voice ever answers me | I |
| Only vacancy | I |
| Once once the cricket shrills | I |
| And far and near the quiet fills | I |
| With its tiny voice and then | J |
| Hush falls again | J |
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| Mute shadows creeping slow | K |
| Mark how the hours go | K |
| Every stone is mouldering slow | K |
| And the least winds that blow | K |
| Some minutest atom shake | L |
| Some fretting ruin make | L |
| In roof and walls How black it is | I |
| Beneath these thick boughed trees | I |
Walter De La Mare
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