He Called Her In Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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He called her in from me and shut the doorB
And she so loved the sunshine and the skyA
She loved them even better yet than IA
That ne'er knew dearth of them my mother deadC
Nature had nursed me in her lap insteadC
And I had grown a dark and eerie childD
That rarely smiledD
Save when shut all alone in grasses highA
Looking straight up in God's great lonesome skyA
And coaxing Mother to smile back on meE
'Twas lying thus this fair girl suddenlyE
Came to me nestled in the fields besideF
A pleasant seeming home with doorway wideF
The sunshine beating in upon the floorB
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Like golden rainG
O sweet sweet face above me turn againH
And leave me I had cried but that an acheI
Within my throat so gripped it I could makeI
No sound but a thick sobbing Cowering soJ
I felt her light hand laidK
Upon my hair a touch that ne'er beforeB
Had tamed me thus all soothed and unafraidK
It seemed the touch the children used to knowJ
When Christ was here so dear it was so dearL
At once I loved her as the leaves love dewM
In midmost summer when the days are newM
Barely an hour I knew her yet a curlN
Of silken sunshine did she clip for meE
Out of the bright May morning of her hairO
And bound and gave it to me laughinglyE
And caught my hands and called me ' Little girl '-
Tiptoeing as she spoke to kiss me thereO
And I stood dazed and dumb for very stressP
Of my great happinessQ
She plucked me by the gown nor saw how meanR
The raiment drew me with her everywhereO
Smothered her face in tufts of grasses greenR
Put up her dainty hands and peeped betweenR
Her fingers at the blossoms crooned and talkedS
To them in strange glad whispers as we walkedS
Said this one was her angel mother thisT
Her baby sister come back for a kissT
Clean from the Good World smiled and kissed them thenH
Closed her soft eyes and kissed them o'er againH
And so did she beguile me so we playedK
She was the dazzling Shine I the dark ShadeK
And we did mingle like to these and thusQ
Together madeK
The perfect summer pure and gloriousQ
So blent we till a harsh voice broke uponU
Our happiness She startled as a fawnV
Cried 'Oh 'tis Father ' all the blossoms goneV
From out her cheeks as those from out her graspW
Harsher the voice came She could only gaspW
Affrightedly 'Good bye good bye good bye '-
And lo I stood alone with that harsh cryA
Ringing a new and unknown sense of shameX
Through soul and frameX
And with wet eyes repeating o'er and o'erY
'He called her in from me and shut the door '-
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He called her in from me and shut the doorB
And I went wandering alone againH
So lonely O so very lonely thenH
I thought no little sallow star aloneZ
In all a world of twilight e'er had knownZ
Such utter loneliness But that I woreB
Above my heart that gleaming tress of hairO
To lighten up the night of my despairO
I think I might have groped into my graveA2
Nor cared to waveA2
The ferns above it with a breath of prayerO
And how I hungered for the sweet sweet faceB2
That bent above me in my hiding placeB2
That day amid the grasses there besideF
Her pleasant home 'Her pleasant home ' I sighedF
Remembering then shut my teeth and feignedC2
The harsh voice calling me then clinched my nailsD2
So deeply in my palms the sharp wounds painedC2
And tossed my face toward heaven as one who palesD2
In splendid martyrdom with soul sereneR
As near to God as high the guillotineR
And I had envied her Not that O noJ
But I had longed for some sweet haven soJ
Wherein the tempest beaten heart might rideF
Sometimes at peaceful anchor and abideF
Where those that loved me touched me with their handsE2
And looked upon me with glad eyes and slippedF2
Smooth fingers o'er my brow and lulled the strandsE2
Of my wild tresses as they backward tippedF2
My yearning face and kissed it satisfiedF
Then bitterly I murmured as beforeB
'He called her in from me and shut the door '-
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He called her in from me and shut the doorB
After long struggling with my pride and painG
A weary while it seemed in which the moreB
I held myself from her the greater fainG
Was I to look upon her face againH
At last at last half conscious where my feetG2
Were faring I stood waist deep in the sweetG2
Green grasses there where sheE
First came to meE
The very blossoms she had plucked that dayH2
And at her father's voice had cast awayH2
Around me layH2
Still bright and blooming in these eyes of mineI2
And as I gathered each one eagerlyE
I pressed it to my lips and drank the wineI2
Her kisses left there for the honey beeE
Then after I had laid them with the tressP
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Of her bright hair with lingering tendernessQ
I turning crept on to the hedge that boundJ2
Her pleasant seeming home but all aroundJ2
Was never sign of her The windows allK2
Were blinded and I heard no rippling fallK2
Of her glad laugh nor any harsh voice callK2
But clutching to the tangled grasses caughtL2
A sound as though a strong man bowed his headC
And sobbed alone unloved uncomfortedC
And then straightway beforeB
My tearless eyes all vividly was wroughtC
A vision that is with me evermoreB
A little girl that lies asleep nor hearsM2
Nor heeds not any voice nor fall of tearsN2
And I sit singing o'er and o'er and o'erY
'God called her in from him and shut the door '-

James Whitcomb Riley



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