Parousia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHI JKLMLM HN MOPQDN MNMRS| Love of my life you | A |
| Are lost and I am | B |
| Young again | C |
| - | |
| A few years pass | D |
| The air fills | E |
| With girlish music | F |
| In the front yard | G |
| The apple tree is | H |
| Studded with blossoms | I |
| - | |
| I try to win you back | J |
| That is the point | K |
| Of the writing | L |
| But you are gone forever | M |
| As in Russian novels saying | L |
| A few words I don't remember | M |
| - | |
| How lush the world is | H |
| How full of things that don't belong to me | N |
| - | |
| I watch the blossoms shatter | M |
| No longer pink | O |
| But old old a yellowish white | P |
| The petals seem | Q |
| To float on the bright grass | D |
| Fluttering slightly | N |
| - | |
| What a nothing you were | M |
| To be changed so quickly | N |
| Into an image an odor | M |
| You are everywhere source | R |
| Of wisdom and anguish | S |
Louise Gluck
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