DDCPoetry

Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson More Information about the Poet: Edwin Arlington Robinson This is a villanelle.  Past me tried to make sense of the form and wondered why did the lines repeat themselves, and why the rhyme scheme.  Distance does make things appear different. But that's the point of this poem in particular -- how "they are all gone now" and how this distance changes the perspective of "the house on the hill." So the two refrain lines in the poem are, "They are all gone away," and "There is nothing more to say."  The first refrain has a somber tone of leaving and the second refrain has more of a mysterious quality since the poem, indeed, says something. "Through broken walls and gray / The winds blow bleak and shrill: / They are all gone away.  The first usage of the first refrain brings more of the after effects -- they are all gone only the broken and the b...