The Lady Of La Garaye - A Threnody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADEAFFGGHIJKKLLM MNO PPQRRQSTUUVVWWXXNYVN ZZJJ A2A2B2B2DDC2D2GC2E2E 2C2F2F2HG2H2I2G2G2| HOW Memory haunts us When we fain would be | A |
| Alone and free | A |
| Uninterrupted by his mournful words | B |
| Faint indistinct as are a wind harp's chords | C |
| Hung on a leafless tree | A |
| He will not leave us we resolve in vain | D |
| To chase him forth for he returns again | E |
| Pining incessantly | A |
| In the old pathways of our lost delights | F |
| He walks on sunny days and starlit nights | F |
| Answering our restless moan | G |
| With 'I am here alone | G |
| My brother Joy is gone for ever gone | H |
| Round your decaying home | I |
| The Spring indeed is come | J |
| The leaves are thrilling with a sense of life | K |
| The sap of flowers is rife | K |
| But where is Joy Heaven's messenger bright Joy | L |
| That curled and radiant boy | L |
| Who was the younger brother of my heart | M |
| Why let ye him whom I so loved depart | M |
| Call him once more | N |
| And let us all be glad as heretofore ' | O |
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| Then urged and stung by Memory we go forth | P |
| And wander south and north | P |
| Deeming Joy may yet answer to our yearning | Q |
| But all is blank and bare | R |
| The silent air | R |
| Echoes no pleasant shout of his returning | Q |
| Yet somewhere somewhere by the pathless woods | S |
| Or silver rippling floods | T |
| He wanders as he wandered once with us | U |
| Through bright arcades of cities populous | U |
| Or else in deserts rude | V |
| Happy in solitude | V |
| And choosing only Youth to be his mate | W |
| He leaves us to our fate | W |
| We hear his distant laughter as we go | X |
| Pacing ourselves with Woe | X |
| Both us he hath outstripped for evermore | N |
| Seek him not in the wood | Y |
| Where the sweet ring doves ever murmuring brood | V |
| Nor on the hill nor by the golden shore | N |
| Others inherit that which once was ours | Z |
| The freshness of the hours | Z |
| The sparkling of the early morning rime | J |
| The evanescent glory of the time | J |
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| With them in some sweet glade | A2 |
| Warm with a summer shade | A2 |
| Or where white clover blooming fresh and wild | B2 |
| Breathes like the kisses of a little child | B2 |
| He lingers now we call him back in vain | D |
| To our world's snow and rain | D |
| The bower we built him when he was our guest | C2 |
| Life's storms have beaten down | D2 |
| And he far off hath flown | G |
| And buildeth where there is a sunnier nest | C2 |
| Or closing rainbow wings and laughing eyes | E2 |
| He lieth basking 'neath the open skies | E2 |
| Taking his rest | C2 |
| On the soft moss of some unbroken ground | F2 |
| Where sobs did never sound | F2 |
| Oh give him up confess that Joy has gone | H |
| He met you at the source of Life's bright river | G2 |
| And if he hath passed on | H2 |
| 'Tis that his task is done | I2 |
| He hath no future message to deliver | G2 |
| But leaves you lone and still for ever and for ever | G2 |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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