Bereft Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLABMNBCOP CPQRS TBUVWXSYZA2B2UTBCDC2 BD2AC2C2E2EF2 G2QH2I2J2K2L2M2J2M2N 2F2O2ABP2Q2R2G2PQS2T 2U2V2U2AB

FOR nine drear nights my darling has been deadA
And ah dear God I cannot dream of herB
Now I shall see her always lying whiteC
A frozen flower beneath a snow of flowersD
Drowned in a sea of fragrance I shall hearE
In every silence of the coming yearsF
Only the muffled horror from the roomG
Where I had left my little child asleepH
And found a nameless thing shut in and sealedI
And I shall never feel her breath that kissedJ
Me closer than her lips did for the thickK
Dead perfume of slow drooping flowers has drawnL
A veil across my memory She is deadA
For nine drear nights I have not dreamed of herB
When all a tangle of wee clambering limbsM
And little gusts of laughter and of tearsN
Sun flecked and shadow stricken every hourB
She played about me I could lie all nightC
And dream of her She came in wondrous waysO
Hiding behind the dark to startle meP
Then leaping down the vistas of the nightC
And yielding all her wistful soul to meP
With kisses tenderer and words more sweetQ
Than that mad random vehemence of loveR
She lavished on me through her laughing dayS
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And now she has been dead nine dreary nightsT
And ah dear God I cannot dream of herB
Her idle hoop is hung against the wallU
And in the dusk her cherished garments seemV
As if still warmed with all her eager lifeW
And here the childish story that she wroteX
Herself and never finished how one dayS
With puzzled pucker of her brow she stoppedY
Mid sentence as if God had gravely heldZ
A finger up to hush her and she knewA2
She was to keep His secrets soon so soonB2
Perhaps He whispered low she would know allU
And now she has been dead nine long sad nightsT
And ah dear God I cannot dream of herB
So I shall see her always lying whiteC
A frozen flower beneath a snow of flowersD
Drowned in a sea of fragrance Now it seemsC2
As if the memories I hold of herB
Have shrivelled with the lilies that she lovedD2
And lay with on her little narrow bedA
And now she will not murmur through my dreamsC2
Those faint strange words that mean so much in dreamsC2
And wither with the morn I lie awakeE2
And whisper to my hopes To night I'll hearE
Her petulant hands knock at my dreams' shut gateF2
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And oh the gladness when I let her inG2
Hush what a patter of impatient feetQ
Down the long staircase of the stars And thenH2
I sleep and with an endless wearinessI2
I grope among the spaces of the darkJ2
For rhythm of her unresting feet or touchK2
Of her caressing fingers or the kissL2
And whisper of her little self willed curlsM2
But never lifts her laugh across the darkJ2
And never may I smooth her wilful curlsM2
And when I wake again I see her yetN2
So pitifully thin and chill and straightF2
Who used to be all curves a living flameO2
For nine drear nights my darling has been deadA
And till I die I cannot dream of herB
Perhaps she aches to come shut in her graveP2
So deep to dig to hide that tender formQ2
Dear God she is too frail and weak to climbR2
The horror of those walls that hedge her inG2
And when you call her to you let me beP
Close by her side to lift her little feetQ
Up to the grass and sunshine of this worldS2
That lacking her is now so desolateT2
So I have called and called she does not comeU2
And yet I know the way into my heartV2
She has not quite forgotten She does not comeU2
And now for nine drear nights she has been deadA
And ah dear God I cannot dream of herB

Arthur Henry Adams



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