Seen at a Gate (was House Poor) - edit4

[Joshua Smith]

Enjoyable and captivating.  An interesting rhyming scheme for a decasyllabic dizain.  It reads relatively smooth for me.  I do struggle slightly with lines 7 and 8.  I tended to catch on "Last" for the fist few readings, and after working through that, the three multi syllable words in a line contrasting with the rest of the lines made it feel much smaller than ten syllables.  I still sometimes accidentally throw in a "he" for the eighth line.  Possibly subconsciously feeling a need for more syllables from the previous line. Since the name of the poem is "House Poor" I wonder if it is beneficial contemplating if the man is just doing an odd job.  Could you use those two lines and illustrate the arduous labor the elderly man is engaged in?  If iambic pentameter is the design then I struggle on how to scan the final line that way.  BOASTS no FENCE so de MAND ing or so FINE. Via the rule of three you could emphasize the "or".  If you leave the "or" deemphasized then you could stress the "de" along with "mand" creating a double iamb and technically it could be IP, but no matter how many times I read it this line does not feel or sound iambic to me.  The last line is great, and I cannot help but extrapolate a meaning of nicer things are more demanding things, and to project that to entities other than houses.  In a good way this poem leaves me wanting more.  Should you want to continue this theme I would be interested in another dizain where the narrator conjectures about the furnishings and possessions, or lack thereof, inside the home.