The Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGHIJKL MNOPDQRSTUVDWXYZA2B2 C2D2E2F2G2H2EI2J2K2 L2M2N2O2P2KQ2R2S2T2U 2V2M2W2ZG2X2Y2Z2A3| To you my comrades whether far or near | A |
| I send this message Let our past revive | B |
| Come sound reveille to our hearts once more | C |
| Expecting I shall wait till at my door | C |
| I see you enter each and every one | D |
| Tumultuous eager all with clamorous speech | E |
| To hide my stammering welcome and my tears | F |
| I am no host carousing long and late | G |
| Enticing guests with epicurean hints | H |
| Nor am I Timon sick of this sad world | I |
| Who jesting cries The sky is overhead | J |
| And underneath that famous rest the earth | K |
| Show me the man who can have more at last | L |
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| Without the thunder of the city rolls | M |
| Within the quiet of the student reigns | N |
| There is a change Time was a childish voice | O |
| Sweet as the lark's when from her nest she soars | P |
| Thrilled over all and vanished into heaven | D |
| Music once triumphed here the skilful hand | Q |
| Of him who rarely struck the keys and woke | R |
| My soul in harmony grand as his own | S |
| Is folded on his breast my soldier love | T |
| Here hangs his portrait under it his sword | U |
| He served his country and his grave's afar | V |
| Dread not this place as one to relics given | D |
| Though I have decked with amaranth my wall | W |
| The testimony of a later loss | X |
| His who long wandering in foreign lands | Y |
| Then dying crossed the sea to die with me | Z |
| Behold the sunrise and the morning clouds | A2 |
| On yonder canvas misty mountain peaks | B2 |
| The simple grandeur of a perfect art | C2 |
| Behold these vivid woods that gleam beside | D2 |
| The happy vision of an autumn eve | E2 |
| When red leaves fall and redder sunsets fade | F2 |
| The world grows pensive sinking into night | G2 |
| Whose melancholy space hides sighing winds | H2 |
| Can they reply to sadder human speech | E |
| What centuries are counted here my books | I2 |
| Shadows of mighty men the chorus hark | J2 |
| The antique chant vibrates and Fate compels | K2 |
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| Comrades return the midnight lamp shall gleam | L2 |
| As in old nights the chaplets woven then | M2 |
| Withered perhaps by time may grace us yet | N2 |
| The laurel faded is the laurel still | O2 |
| And some of us are heroes to ourselves | P2 |
| And amber wine shall flow the blue smoke wreathe | K |
| In droll disputes with metaphysics mixed | Q2 |
| Or float as lightly as the quick spun verse | R2 |
| Threading the circle round from thought to thought | S2 |
| Sparkling and fresh as is the airy web | T2 |
| Spread on the hedge at morn in silver dew | U2 |
| The scent of roses you remember well | V2 |
| In the green vases they shall bloom again | M2 |
| And me do you remember I remain | W2 |
| Unchanged I think though one I saw like me | Z |
| Some years ago with hair that was not white | G2 |
| And she was with you then as brave a soul | X2 |
| As souls can be whom Fate has not approached | Y2 |
| But seek and find me now unchanged or changed | Z2 |
| Mirthful in tears and in my laughter sad | A3 |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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