Poet Elizabeth Stoddard

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From The Headland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKGLMNOPQRS TUVWXCYZMA2B2C2D2E2F 2G2QH2Z

I hear the waters of some inlet nowA
Come lapping to the fringe of yonder woodB
The storm bent firs and oaks along the cliffC
The yellow leaves are glistening in the grassD
The grassy slope I climb this autumn dayE
Ensnaring me the brambles clutch my feetF
As if constraining me to be a guestG
To the wild silent populace they shieldH
It cannot say nor I why we are hereI
What is my recompense upon this soilJ
For other paths are mine if I go henceK
Still must I make the mystery my questG
For here or there I think one sways my willL
There is no show of beauty to delightM
The vision here or strike the electric chordN
Which makes the present and the past as oneO
No thickets where the thrushes sing in mazeP
Of green no silver threaded waterfallsQ
In vales where summer sleeps in darkling woodsR
With sunlit glades and pools where lilies blowS
Here but the wiry grass and sorrel bedsT
The gaping edges of the sand ravinesU
Whose shifting sides are tufted with dull herbsV
Drooping above a brook that sluggish creepsW
Down to the whispering rushes in the marshX
And this is all until I reach the cliffC
And on the headland's verge I stand enthralledY
Before the gulf of the unquenchable seaZ
The sea inexorable in its mightM
Circling the pebbly beach with limpid tidesA2
Storming in bays whose margins fade in mistB2
Now blue and silent as a noonday skyC2
At twilight now the pearly rollers shakeD2
The sunset's trail of violet and goldE2
Or black when rushing on the rocky islesF2
Anchored in waves that bellow to the windsG2
I watch till comes the night the moonlight fallsQ
The silvery deep on some far journey goesH2
To solve for me I think this mysteryZ

Elizabeth Stoddard



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