The Missing Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCACB DDEEFDFE GGHIJGKIJ| WHY did the star leave the sky | A |
| The far pure sky | A |
| Shone she not high and hallowed and fair | B |
| Could she not tarry her life time there | B |
| Why must she fall and fade | C |
| She had heaven nigh | A |
| I of the earth I would she had stayed | C |
| In her lonely air | B |
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| Higher than love lived my star | D |
| My clear cold star | D |
| Why must she droop to our mists below | E |
| Ah for the glory of long ago | E |
| Ah for the pride no more | F |
| When she stood so far | D |
| Would she were lost in the days before | F |
| In the perished glow | E |
| - | |
| Star wandered out of my light | G |
| Once all my light | G |
| Seeing the sky through a dullness of tears | H |
| Crying for thee to the empty years | I |
| Where should I seek for thee | J |
| Mid the desert night | G |
| Not on the earth | K |
| Ah the star that nears | I |
| Has forgotten to be | J |
Augusta Davies Webster
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