We Must Wait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEEFGEEEEEHIJKLE MNGOPQRGEESETUVWXEVS YEEVVBAEEVZA2B2C2D2I| The testimony of my loss and gain | A |
| Will I give utterance to though none may hear | B |
| When long ago bereft of all I loved | C |
| I sought in Nature recompense implored | D |
| For pity solace or forgetfulness | E |
| The dear familiar seasons as they pass | E |
| The seal of memory on every place | E |
| I said will give the sympathy I seek | F |
| The restoration which they owe to me | G |
| By day and night I prayed as futile prayers | E |
| As the wind's shriek in lonesome winter nights | E |
| By the sea they fell as empty as the shells | E |
| Upon its sands uncertain as its mists | E |
| With them I tracked the shadows of the woods | E |
| And sowed them in the fields among the seed | H |
| Whoso reaped harvest I could gather none | I |
| I wandered in the thickets giving tongue | J |
| Like a lost hound dazed by their solitude | K |
| The while birds called their mates the lilies blazed | L |
| And roses opened to the wandering airs | E |
| They vanished with the leaves that voyaged the brook | M |
| Which babbled of no story but its own | N |
| How blind I was to Nature's liberty | G |
| Grief stalked beside me I was sore beset | O |
| And could not hear the turning of Time's wheel | P |
| Still were the skies serene the earth most fair | Q |
| When with the doleful chant of dust to dust | R |
| Mingled the laughter of this sunlit sea | G |
| And through my tears I saw the ripples dance | E |
| And June's sweet breezes kiss the swaying elms | E |
| As he who turns the key within his door | S |
| And gazes at his walls before he goes | E |
| Then forward sets his steps so I set mine | T |
| To join a band whose purpose was to find | U |
| A world of action but my heart was cold | V |
| My mind supine Yet I remained with them | W |
| And answered to the roll called Honor Fame | X |
| Where were my memories and my ardent prayers | E |
| The years stood far behind their columns graved | V |
| Deep with the adage which youth names No More | S |
| Like one who enters some old storied hall | Y |
| And down its vista suddenly beholds | E |
| A banner waving out its old device | E |
| Of victory so suddenly I felt | V |
| My later life a void I was recalled | V |
| My prayers were answered and behold me here | B |
| Within the pale of all my loss and gain | A |
| The dear familiar seasons as they pass | E |
| The seal of memory on every place | E |
| Bestow the restoration which I sought | V |
| At peace I know as those who suffer know | Z |
| There is no secret we can wrest at will | A2 |
| From Nature Time must bring and share with her | B2 |
| The gift of resignation cure for grief | C2 |
| And cast upon our ways this ray of hope | D2 |
| That I the lost and Nature may be one | I |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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