The Silver Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EF GEHEIEJK LMNO EP| The nights have grown cool again like the nights | A |
| Of early spring and quiet again Will | B |
| Speech disturb you We're | C |
| Alone now we have no reason for silence | D |
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| Can you see over the garden the full moon rises | E |
| I won't see the next full moon | F |
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| In spring when the moon rose it meant | G |
| Time was endless Snowdrops | E |
| Opened and closed the clustered | H |
| Seeds of the maples fell in pale drifts | E |
| White over white the moon rose over the birch tree | I |
| And in the crook where the tree divides | E |
| Leaves of the first daffodils in moonlight | J |
| Soft greenish silver | K |
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| We have come too far together toward the end now | L |
| To fear the end These nights I am no longer even certain | M |
| I know what the end means And you who've been | N |
| With a man | O |
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| After the first cries | E |
| Doesn't joy like fear make no sound | P |
Louise Gluck
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