Eudoxia. Third Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE FGFHII JFJFK| O SILENT my sister who stands by my side at the shore | A |
| Back gazing with me on those waves which we mortals call years | B |
| That rose grew and threatened and climaxed and broke and were o'er | C |
| While we still sit watching and watching our cheeks free from tears | D |
| O sister with looks so familiar yet strange flitting by | E |
| Say say hast thou been to those dead years as faithful as I | E |
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| Have they cast at thy feet also jewels and whitening bones | F |
| Gold silver and wreck wood dank sea weed and treasures of cost | G |
| Hast thou buried thy dead sought thy jewels 'midst shingle and stones | F |
| And learnt how the lost is the found and the found is the lost | H |
| Or stood with clear eyes upturned placid 'twixt sorrow and mirth | I |
| As asking deep questions that cannot be answered on earth | I |
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| I know not Who knoweth Our own souls we scarcely do know | J |
| And none knows his brother's Who judges contemns or bewails | F |
| Or mocketh or praiseth In this world's strange vanishing show | J |
| The one truth is loving O sister the dark cloud that veils | F |
| All life lets this rift through to glorify future and past | K |
| 'Love ever love only love faithfully love to the last ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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