And Yet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGHHGIJJI KLLK MNNMOPQRSTUSVWWVXYYX JZZJ A2B2B2A2C2D2D2C2E2JJ E2F2G2G2F2XH2H2XZI2B 2Z J2K2K2J2I2XXB2L2A2A2 L2C2KKC2THEY drew him from the darkened room | A |
Where swooning in a peace profound | B |
Beneath a heavy fragrance drowned | B |
Her grey form glimmered in the gloom | A |
Death smoothed from her each sordid trace | C |
Of Life at last he read the scroll | D |
For all the meaning of her soul | D |
Flowered upon her perfect face | C |
In other worlds her soul finds scope | E |
Her spirit lives she is not dead | F |
In his dulled ear they said and said | F |
Suave murmuring the ancient Hope | E |
You loved her she was worthy love | G |
Think you her spheral soul can cease | H |
Nay she has ripened to release | H |
From this bare earth and waits above | G |
His brain their clamour heard aloof | I |
He too had said the self same thing | J |
But now his heart was quivering | J |
For more than comfort parched for proof | I |
He put them from him Let me be | K |
You proffer in my bitter need | L |
The coward comfort of a creed | L |
That tears her soul apart from me | K |
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She waits in no drear Heaven afar | M |
Her woman's soul in all its worth | N |
Yearning for me for homely earth | N |
No gates of beaten gold could bar | M |
No she is near me ever close | O |
One with the world but free again | P |
One with the breezes and the rain | Q |
One with the mountain and the rose | R |
She knows me not her voice is dumb | S |
But aching through the twilight peers | T |
And unremembering yet with tears | U |
She strives to say she cannot come | S |
Yes she is changed but not destroyed | V |
The words that were her soul are hushed | W |
The gem that was her heart is crushed | W |
Its fragments white stars in the void | V |
And I shall see her in disguise | X |
In the grey vistas of the street | Y |
A face that hints of her I meet | Y |
Whispers her soul from alien eyes | X |
In Time's great garden spring on spring | J |
The blossoms glow then at a breath | Z |
Their petals flutter down to death | Z |
Ah love how brief your blossoming | J |
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Death has but severed part from part | A2 |
Borne on an ever moving air | B2 |
The fragrance of her life somewhere | B2 |
Freshens some lonely wistful heart | A2 |
No word of hers can God forget | C2 |
Her laughter Time dare not disperse | D2 |
It shakes the tense strung universe | D2 |
And with the chord it trembles yet | C2 |
Each mood of hers each fancy slight | E2 |
In deep pulsations ring on ring | J |
Dilating ever widening | J |
Ripples across the outer night | E2 |
Her life with deathless charm was fraught | F2 |
And God with smiles remembers now | G2 |
The puzzled pucker of her brow | G2 |
Ruffled with sudden gusts of thought | F2 |
And in His cosmic memory wise | X |
Still live her subtle features thin | H2 |
Her dear iconoclastic chin | H2 |
The grave enigma of her eyes | X |
And if beyond she might draw breath | Z |
And know that I was not with her | I2 |
The wistful eyes of her despair | B2 |
Would be more desolate than death | Z |
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But not to meet her in the wide | J2 |
Night spaces I must wander through | K2 |
To kiss the pretty pout I knew | K2 |
And nevermore to hear her chide | J2 |
To speak those childish words that were | I2 |
So foolish sweet so passionate wise | X |
Her subtle fragrance recognise | X |
And hear the whispers of her hair | B2 |
Her sun has set but still sublime | L2 |
She is a star of God a part | A2 |
She is a petal at the heart | A2 |
Of the eternal flower of Time | L2 |
I triumph so beyond regret | C2 |
I win her immortality | K |
Where Death your vaunted victory | K |
Where Grave your sting And yet and yet | C2 |
Arthur Henry Adams
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