To A Dead Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA CDEEE FGEHGF CCIJCKL ECCEMC| The dark is thrown | A |
| Back from the brightness like hair | B |
| Cast over a shoulder | C |
| I am alone | A |
| - | |
| Four years older | C |
| Like the chairs and the walls | D |
| Which I once watched brighten | E |
| With you beside me I was to waken | E |
| Never like this whatever came or was taken | E |
| - | |
| The stalk grows the year beats on the wind | F |
| Apples come and the month for their fall | G |
| The bark spreads the roots tighten | E |
| Though today be the last | H |
| Or tomorrow all | G |
| You will not mind | F |
| - | |
| That I may not remember | C |
| Does not matter | C |
| I shall not be with you again | I |
| What we knew even now | J |
| Must scatter | C |
| And be ruined and blow | K |
| Like dust in the rain | L |
| - | |
| You have been dead a long season | E |
| And have less than desire | C |
| Who were lover with lover | C |
| And I have life that old reason | E |
| To wait for what comes | M |
| To leave what is over | C |
Louise Bogan
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