Widows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFEFGGHHIIJJJKKLMLLN NOPQQRRSTQUQUVWXYYZN NA2A2 B2C2D2E2E2D2F2G2F2G2 H2 H2 I2I2FLF L AADDJ2J2

The world was widowed by the death of ChristA
Vainly its suffering soul for peace has soughtB
And found it notC
For nothing nothing nothing has sufficedA
To bring back comfort to the stricken houseD
From whence has gone the Master and the SpouseD
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In its long widowhood the world has strivenE
To find diversion It has turned awayF
From the vast awefull silences of HeavenE
Which answer but with silence when we prayF
And sought for something to assuage its griefG
Some surcease and reliefG
From sorrow in pursuit of mortal joysH
It drowned God's stillness in a sea of noiseH
It lost God's presence in a blur of formsI
Till bruised and bleeding with life's brutal stormsI
Unto immutable and speechless spaceJ
The World lifts up its faceJ
Its haggard tear drenched faceJ
And cries aloud for faith's supreme rewardK
The promised Second Coming of its LordK
So many widows widows everywhereL
The whole earth teems with widowsM
Guns that blareL
Winged monsters of the airL
And deep sea monsters leaping through the waterN
Hell bent on slaughterN
All these plough paths for widows Maids at dawnO
And brides at noon ere eventide pass onP
Into the ranks of widows but to weepQ
Just for a little space then will grief sleepQ
In their young bosoms where sweet hope belongsR
New love will sing once more its age old songsR
And life bloom as a rose tree blooms againS
After a night of rainT
There are complacent widows clothed in cr peQ
Who simulate a grief that is not realU
Through paths of seeming sorrow they escapeQ
From disappointed hopes to some idealU
Or from the penury of unloved wivesV
Walk forth to opulent livesW
And there are widows who shed all their tearsX
Just at the firstY
In one wild burstY
And then go lilting lightly down the yearsZ
Black butterflies they flit from flower to flowerN
And live in the thin pleasures of the hourN
Merging their tender memories of the deadA2
In tenderer dreams of being once more wedA2
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But there are others women who have provedB2
That loving greatly means so being lovedC2
Women who through full beauteous years have grownD2
Into the very body souls and heartE2
Of their dear comrades When death tears apartE2
Such close knit bonds as these and one aloneD2
Out to the larger freer life is calledF2
And one is leftG2
Then God in heaven must sometimes be appalledF2
At the wild anguish of the soul bereftG2
And unto His Son must say 'I did not knowH2
Mortals could suffer so '-
But Christ remembering GethsemaneH2
Will answer softly 'It was known to Me '-
God's alchemist old Time will merge to calmI2
That bitter anguish but there is no balmI2
Save the sweet certitude that each long dayF
Is one step in a stairL
That circles up to where freed spirits stayF
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Widows so many widows everywhereL
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The world was widowed by the death of ChristA
And nothing nothing nothing has sufficedA
To bring back comfort to the stricken houseD
From whence has gone the Master and the SpouseD
Hasten dear Lord with Thy MillenniumJ2
Hasten and comeJ2

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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