A Haunting Memory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFBB FHFHII JK LKMM NINIEEWild rockets blew along the lane | A |
The tall white gentians too were there | B |
The mullein stalks were brave again | C |
Of blossoms was the bramble bare | B |
And toward the pasture bars below | D |
The cows went by me tinkling slow | D |
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Straight through the sunset flew a thrush | E |
And sang the only song he knew | F |
Perched on a ripening elder bush | G |
Oh but to give his song its due | F |
Sang it and ceased and left it there | B |
To haunt bush blade and golden air | B |
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Oh but to make it plain to you | F |
My words were wrought for grosser stuff | H |
To give that lonely tune its due | F |
Never a word is sweet enough | H |
A thing to think on when 'twas past | I |
As is the first rose or the last | I |
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The lad driving his cows along | J |
Strode whistling through the windy grass | K |
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The little pool the shrubs among | L |
Lay like a bit of yellow glass | K |
A window in the farmhouse old | M |
Turned westward was of glaring gold | M |
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I have forgotten days and days | N |
And much well worth the holding fast | I |
Yet not the look of those green ways | N |
The bramble with its bloom long past | I |
The tinkling cows the scent the hush | E |
Still on the eider sings that thrush | E |
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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