Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems Quotes Books Biography Comments Images

Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBACBBBC DEFGHIDIHFEHJ KLMNBNLNKBMNNM

Let them bury your big eyesA
In the secret earth securelyB
Your thin fingers and your fairC
Soft indefinite colored hairC
All of these in some way surelyB
From the secret earth shall riseA
Not for these I sit and stareC
Broken and bereft completelyB
Your young flesh that sat so neatlyB
On your little bones will sweetlyB
Blossom in the airC
-
But your voice never the rushingD
Of a river undergroundE
Not the rising of the windF
In the trees before the rainG
Not the woodcock's watery callH
Not the note the white throat uttersI
Not the feet of children pushingD
Yellow leaves along the guttersI
In the blue and bitter fallH
Shall content my musing mindF
For the beauty of that soundE
That in no new way at allH
Ever will be heard againJ
-
Sweetly through the sappy stalkK
Of the vigorous weedL
Holding all it held beforeM
Cherished by the faithful sunN
On and on eternallyB
Shall your altered fluid runN
Bud and bloom and go to seedL
But your singing days are doneN
But the music of your talkK
Never shall the chemistryB
Of the secret earth restoreM
All your lovely words are spokenN
Once the ivory box is brokenN
Beats the golden bird no moreM

Edna St. Vincent Millay



Rate:
(1)



Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme

Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Elaine Poem Elegy Before Death Poem>>

Write your comment about Elegy poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 17 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Popular Poets