The Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGCHCCDIJKLMNO PQRCNCCCPDCSDTDC| Impelled by memory in a wayward mood | A |
| Reluctant yearning with a faithless mind | B |
| I sought once more a long neglected spot | C |
| A wooded upland bordered by the sea | D |
| Whose tides were swirling up the reedy sands | E |
| Or floating noiseless in the yellow marsh | F |
| My way was wild The winds awaking smote | C |
| My face but as I passed a ruined wall | G |
| Brambles and vines and waving blossoms dashed | C |
| A frolic welcome like a summer rain | H |
| Shouldering the hills against the murky east | C |
| Stood stalwart oaks and in the mossy sod | C |
| Below the trembling birches whispered me | D |
| Not here I reached the silence loving pines | I |
| And lingered The mists swept from the wooded hills | J |
| And rolling seaward hid the anchored ships | K |
| So happy dreaming an old dream again | L |
| Of keeping tryst in secret on the knoll | M |
| I wandered on listening in dreamy maze | N |
| To sounds I thought familiar the approach | O |
| Of well known footsteps in the leafy path | P |
| A murmuring voice calling me by name | Q |
| Through the pine shafts the sunless light of dawn | R |
| Stole Day was come My dream would be fulfilled | C |
| Above the hills the sky began to blaze | N |
| And ushering morn the west flushed rosy red | C |
| Then the Sun leaping from his bed of gold | C |
| Scattered cloud banners crimson gray and white | C |
| There was my shadow in the leafy path | P |
| Alone none was to keep the tryst with me | D |
| No voice no step among the hills I heard | C |
| The joyous swallows from their nestlings flew | S |
| Mad in the light with song Far out at sea | D |
| The white sails fluttered in the eager breeze | T |
| But Day was silent holding tryst with me | D |
| My pilgrimage rewarded faith restored | C |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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