Terminus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ GKLK MNON PPQP RSTS UBOB BVBV VVVV VVWV| Terminus shows the ways and says | A |
| All things must have an end | B |
| Oh bitter thought we hid away | C |
| When first you were my friend | B |
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| We hid it in the darkest place | D |
| Our hearts had place to hide | E |
| And took the sweet as from a spring | F |
| Whose waters would abide | E |
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| For neither life nor the wide world | G |
| Has greater store than this | H |
| The thought that runs through hands and eyes | I |
| And fills the silences | J |
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| There is a void the ag d world | G |
| Throws over the spent heart | K |
| When Life has given all she has | L |
| And Terminus says depart | K |
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| When we must sit with folded hands | M |
| And see with inward eye | N |
| A void rise like an arctic breath | O |
| To hollow the morrow's sky | N |
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| To morrow is and trembling leaves | P |
| And 'wildered winds from Thrace | P |
| Look for you where your face has bloomed | Q |
| And where may bloom your face | P |
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| Beyond the city over the hill | R |
| Under the anguished moon | S |
| The winds and my dreams seek after you | T |
| By meadow water and dune | S |
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| All things must have an end we know | U |
| But oh the dreaded end | B |
| Whether in life whether in death | O |
| To lose the cherished friend | B |
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| To lose in life the cherished friend | B |
| While the myrtle tree is green | V |
| To live and have the cherished friend | B |
| With only the world between | V |
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| With only the wide wide world between | V |
| Where memory has mortmain | V |
| Life pours more wine in the heart of man | V |
| Than the heart of man can contain | V |
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| Oh heart of man and heart of woman | V |
| Thirsting for blood of the vine | V |
| Life waits till the heart has lived too much | W |
| And then pours in new wine | V |
Edgar Lee Masters
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