Verses upon the Burning of our House
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Verses upon the Burning of our House (full title: Here follow some verses upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666) is a poem by Anne Bradstreet. She wrote it to memorialize the traumatic loss of her home and most of her possessions.[1]
The poem has a couplet-based rhyme scheme.
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- ^ Edwin Monroe Bacon. Literary pilgrimages in New England to the homes of famous makers of American literature and among their haunts and the scenes of their writings. Silver, Burdett & Company, 1902. Pages 24-27
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