Poet Elizabeth Stoddard

Elizabeth Stoddard

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Unreturning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJCAKLMNNNNO PLQNPRPRPJNNSPNSTPPP UNS

Now all the flowers that ornament the grassA
Wherever meadows are and placid brooksB
Must fall the glory of the grass must fallC
Year after year I see them sprout and spreadD
The golden glossy tossing buttercupsE
The tall straight daisies and red clover globesF
The swinging bellwort and the blue eyed bentG
With nameless plants as perfect in their huesH
Perfect in root and branch their plan of lifeI
As if the intention of a soul were thereJ
I see them flourish as I see them fallC
But he who once was growing with the grassA
And blooming with the flowers my little sonK
Fell withered dead nor has revived againL
Perfect and lovely needful to my sightM
Why comes he not to ornament my daysN
The barren fields forget their barrennessN
The soulless earth mates with these soulless thingsN
Why should I not obtain my recompenseN
The budding spring should bring or summer's primeO
At least a vision of the vanished childP
And let his heart commune with mine againL
Though in a dream his life was but a dreamQ
Then might I wait with patient cheerfulnessN
That cheerfulness which keeps one's tears unshedP
And blinds the eyes with pain the passage slowR
Of other seasons and be still and coldP
As the earth is when shrouded in the snowR
Or passive like it when the boughs are strippedP
In autumn and the leaves roll everywhereJ
And he should go again for winter's snowsN
And autumn's melancholy voice in windsN
In waters and in woods belong to meS
To me a faded soul for as I saidP
The sense of all his beauty sweetness comesN
When blossoms are the sweetest when the seaS
Sparkling and blue cries to the sun in joyT
Or silent pale and misty waits the nightP
Till the moon pushing through the veiling cloudP
Hangs naked in its heaving solitudeP
When feathery pines wave up and down the shoreU
And the vast deep above holds gentle starsN
And the vast world beneath hides him from meS

Elizabeth Stoddard



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