Nothing Is Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFFGH IJDKI LMNOL PJJQR STUVS WCCXW| Nothing is lost | A |
| We are too sad to know that or too blind | B |
| Only in visited moments do we understand | C |
| It is not that the dead return | D |
| They are about us always though unguessed | C |
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| This penciled Latin verse | E |
| You dying wrote me ten years past and more | F |
| Brings you as much alive to me as the self you wrote it for | F |
| Dear father as I read your words | G |
| With no word but Alas | H |
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| Lines in a letter lines in a face | I |
| Are the faithful currents of life the boy has written | J |
| His parents across his forehead and as we burn | D |
| Our bodies up each seven years | K |
| His own past self has left no plainer trace | I |
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| Nothing dies | L |
| The cells pass on their secrets we betray them | M |
| Unknowingly in a freckle in the way | N |
| We walk recall some ancestor | O |
| And Adam in the color of our eyes | L |
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| Yes on the face of the new born | P |
| Before the soul has taken full possession | J |
| There pass as over a screen in succession | J |
| The images of other beings | Q |
| Face after face looks out and then is gone | R |
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| Nothing is lost for all in love survive | S |
| I lay my cheek against his sleeping limbs | T |
| To feel if he is warm and touch in him | U |
| Those children whom no shawl could warm | V |
| No arms no grief no longing could revive | S |
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| Thus what we see or know | W |
| Is only a tiny portion at the best | C |
| Of the life in which we share an iceberg s crest | C |
| Our sunlit present our partial sense | X |
| With deep supporting multitudes below | W |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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