Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBACBBBC DEFGHIDIHFEHJ KLMNBNLNKBMNNM| Let them bury your big eyes | A |
| In the secret earth securely | B |
| Your thin fingers and your fair | C |
| Soft indefinite colored hair | C |
| All of these in some way surely | B |
| From the secret earth shall rise | A |
| Not for these I sit and stare | C |
| Broken and bereft completely | B |
| Your young flesh that sat so neatly | B |
| On your little bones will sweetly | B |
| Blossom in the air | C |
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| But your voice never the rushing | D |
| Of a river underground | E |
| Not the rising of the wind | F |
| In the trees before the rain | G |
| Not the woodcock's watery call | H |
| Not the note the white throat utters | I |
| Not the feet of children pushing | D |
| Yellow leaves along the gutters | I |
| In the blue and bitter fall | H |
| Shall content my musing mind | F |
| For the beauty of that sound | E |
| That in no new way at all | H |
| Ever will be heard again | J |
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| Sweetly through the sappy stalk | K |
| Of the vigorous weed | L |
| Holding all it held before | M |
| Cherished by the faithful sun | N |
| On and on eternally | B |
| Shall your altered fluid run | N |
| Bud and bloom and go to seed | L |
| But your singing days are done | N |
| But the music of your talk | K |
| Never shall the chemistry | B |
| Of the secret earth restore | M |
| All your lovely words are spoken | N |
| Once the ivory box is broken | N |
| Beats the golden bird no more | M |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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