Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIJIK ILIMN CFC OO PQPQDD BRBRSS RNRNOO TDTD U QOQOLL| You left me with the autumn time | A |
| When the winter stripped the forest bare | B |
| Then dressed it in his spotless rime | A |
| When frosts were lurking in the air | B |
| You left me here and went away | C |
| The winds were cold you could not stay | C |
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| You sought a warmer clime until | D |
| The south wind artful maid should break | E |
| The winter's trumpets and should fill | D |
| The air with songs of birds and wake | E |
| The sleeping blossoms on the plain | F |
| And make the brooks to flow again | G |
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| I thought that the winter desolate | H |
| And all times felt a sense of loss | I |
| I taught my longing heart to wait | J |
| And said 'When Spring shall come across | I |
| The hills with blossoms in her track | K |
| The she our loved one will come back ' | - |
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| And now the hills with grass and moss | I |
| The spring with cunning hands has spread | L |
| And yet I feel my grievous loss | I |
| My heart will not be comforted | M |
| But crieth daily 'Where is she | N |
| You promised should come back to me ' | - |
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| Oh love where are you day by day | C |
| I seek to find you but in vain | F |
| Men point me to a grave and say | C |
| 'There is her bed upon the plain ' | - |
| But though I see no trace of you | O |
| I cannot thiink their words are true | O |
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| You were too sweet to wholly pass | P |
| Away from earth and leave no trace | Q |
| You were to fair to let the grass | P |
| Grow rank and tall above your face | Q |
| Your voice that mocked the robin's trill | D |
| I cannot think is hushed and still | D |
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| I thought I saw your golden hair | B |
| One day and reached to touch a strand | R |
| I found but yellow sunbeams there | B |
| The bright rays fell aslant my hand | R |
| And seemed to mock with lights and shades | S |
| The silken meshes of your braids | S |
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| Again I thought I saw your hand | R |
| Wave as if beckoning to me | N |
| I found 'twas but a lily fanned | R |
| By the cool zephyrs from the sea | N |
| Oh love I find no trace of you | O |
| I wonder if their words were true | O |
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| One day I heard a singing voice | T |
| A burst of music trill on trill | D |
| It made my very soul rejoice | T |
| My heart gave and exultant thrill | D |
| I cried 'Oh heart we've found her hush ' | - |
| But no 'twas the silver throated thrush | U |
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| And once I thought I saw your face | Q |
| And wild with joy I ran to you | O |
| But found when I had reached the place | Q |
| 'Twas a blush rose bathed in dew | O |
| Ah love I think you must be dead | L |
| And I believe the words they said | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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