Rebecca Wasson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDEFGDDHIJKLMDNO PQRSTUVW| Spring and Summer Fall and Winter and Spring | A |
| After each other drifting past my window drifting | A |
| And I lay so many years watching them drift and counting | A |
| The years till a terror came in my heart at times | B |
| With the feeling that I had become eternal at last | C |
| My hundredth year was reached And still I lay | D |
| Hearing the tick of the clock and the low of cattle | E |
| And the scream of a jay flying through falling leaves | F |
| Day after day alone in a room of the house | G |
| Of a daughter in law stricken with age and gray | D |
| And by night or looking out of the window by day | D |
| My thought ran back it seemed through infinite time | H |
| To North Carolina and all my girlhood days | I |
| And John my John away to the war with the British | J |
| And all the children the deaths and all the sorrows | K |
| And that stretch of years like a prairie in Illinois | L |
| Through which great figures passed like hurrying horsemen | M |
| Washington Jefferson Jackson Webster Clay | D |
| O beautiful young republic for whom my John and I | N |
| Gave all of our strength and love | O |
| And O my John | P |
| Why when I lay so helpless in bed for years | Q |
| Praying for you to come was your coming delayed | R |
| Seeing that with a cry of rapture like that I uttered | S |
| When you found me in old Virginia after the war | T |
| I cried when I beheld you there by the bed | U |
| As the sun stood low in the west growing smaller and fainter | V |
| In the light of your face | W |
Edgar Lee Masters
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