Poet John L. Stoddard

John L. Stoddard

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The Statue Of The Empress Elizabeth Meran Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHAHIEFE GJKLAEFE MNDNAEOE AFPFFEGE QRQRQQFQ

She is seated by the riverA
In a robe of spotless whiteB
With her lovely face illuminedC
By the evening's tender lightB
But her eyes are full of sadnessD
As if weary of the dayE
And her gaze is toward the oceanF
While the river glides awayE
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At her feet are beds of flowersG
Overhead are stately treesH
Whose protecting branches murmurA
With the passing of the breezeH
Though her hand retains a volumeI
From its page her glances strayE
For her thoughts are with the oceanF
As the river flows awayE
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As I view her chastened featuresG
I can feel the rising tearsJ
At the thought of all her anguishK
Through a martyrdom of yearsL
For her joys were writ in waterA
Too impermanent to stayE
And were swept toward sorrow's oceanF
Ere her youth had passed awayE
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She was captured in the morningM
Of her childhood's careless ageN
And imprisoned in a palaceD
Like a linnet in a cageN
And its gilded bars confined herA
To a Court's prescribed displayE
Which her simple nature hatedO
As the slow years crept awayE
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Thus her heart grew always sadderA
Till her sorrows one by oneF
Reached at last their tragic climaxP
In the murder of her sonF
And this broken hearted womanF
As a madman's victim layE
By Geneva's placid watersG
While her life blood ebbed awayE
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Hence her marble face seems troubledQ
As she gazes down the streamR
Like an angel who hath wakenedQ
From a fearful earth born dreamR
She is waiting for the sunsetQ
Of her tempest darkened dayQ
But her soul is with the oceanF
Where all rivers wend their wayQ

John L. Stoddard



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