Ellen Ray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FBDBDBGB HBIBJBKB KBDBABAB| A quiet song for Ellen | A |
| The patient Ellen Ray | B |
| A dreamer in the nightfall | C |
| A watcher in the day | B |
| The wedded of the sailor | D |
| Who keeps so far away | B |
| A shadow on his forehead | E |
| For patient Ellen Ray | B |
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| When autumn winds were driving | F |
| Across the chafing bay | B |
| He said the words of anger | D |
| That wasted Ellen Ray | B |
| He said the words of anger | D |
| And went his bitter way | B |
| Her dower was the darkness | G |
| The patient Ellen Ray | B |
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| Your comfort is a phantom | H |
| My patient Ellen Ray | B |
| You house it in the night time | I |
| It fronts you in the day | B |
| And when the moon is very low | J |
| And when the lights are grey | B |
| You sit and hug a sorry hope | K |
| My patient Ellen Ray | B |
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| You sit and hug a sorry hope | K |
| Yet who will dare to say | B |
| The sweetness of October | D |
| Is not for Ellen Ray | B |
| The bearer of a burden | A |
| Must rest at fall of day | B |
| And you have borne a heavy one | A |
| My patient Ellen Ray | B |
Henry Kendall
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