Poet John L. Stoddard

John L. Stoddard

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In Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GEGE EHEH IEIE JEKE LMLM NENE AOAO PHPH QRQR

She sees our faces bright and gayA
Our moving lips our laughing eyesB
But scarce a word of what we sayA
Can pass the zone that round her liesB
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A zone of stillness strange profoundC
Invisible to mortal eyeD
Upon whose verge the waves of soundC
In muffled murmurs break and dieD
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Across that silent void she strainsE
To catch at least some winged wordF
And though she fails still smiles and feignsE
The poor pretence of having heardF
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That smile Its pathos wrings the heartG
Of many a friend who yet concealsE
The tears that from his eyelids startG
The grief and pity that he feelsE
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And she aware of our distressE
And sadly conscious of her ownH
Still bravely speaks nor dares confessE
That our real meaning is unknownH
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What rapture when the closing doorI
Shuts out the world and gives releaseE
And on her quivering nerves once moreI
Descends the benison of peaceE
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No longer forced to dimly readJ
Men's meanings from their lips and looksE
Her greatest joy her only needK
The sweet companionship of booksE
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Do we thus ever fully knowL
The boon of leaving far behindM
The world's dull tales of crime and woeL
The gossip of its vacant mindM
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What if her loss be really gainN
That zone of silence a defenceE
A compensation for her painN
A quickening of her psychic senseE
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Perhaps when fall at last awayA
The chains which bind her spirit hereO
A voice divine will gently sayA
In tones which reach alone her earO
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While others in that world of sinP
Heard evil things to thee unknownH
Apart from that defiling dinP
Thy spirit grew in strength aloneH
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They must through other lives returnQ
To slowly earn thy strength of soulR
Through suffering only couldst thou learnQ
The virtue that hath made thee wholeR

John L. Stoddard



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