Little Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| When you are gone there is nor bloom nor leaf | A |
| Nor singing sea at night nor silver birds | B |
| And I can only stare and shape my grief | A |
| In little words | B |
| - | |
| I cannot conjure loveliness to drown | C |
| The bitter woe that racks my cords apart | D |
| The weary pen that sets my sorrow down | C |
| Feeds at my heart | D |
| - | |
| There is no mercy in the shifting year | E |
| No beauty wraps me tenderly about | F |
| I turn to little words so you my dear | E |
| Can spell them out | F |
Dorothy Parker
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