Threnody In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBACDEFEGCHCCGHCE CEIJKJJIKLELEMNONNMO CECE| Again the earth miraculous with May | A |
| Unfolds its vernal arras Yesteryear | B |
| We strolled together 'neath the greening trees | C |
| And heard the robin tune its flute note clear | B |
| And watched above the white cloud squadrons veer | B |
| And saw their shifting shadows drift away | A |
| Adown the Hudson as ships seek the seas | C |
| The scene is still the same The violet | D |
| Unlids its virgin eye its amber ore | E |
| The dandelion shows and yet and yet | F |
| He comes no more no more | E |
| He of the open and the generous heart | G |
| The soul that sensed all flowerful loveliness | C |
| The nature as the nature of a child | H |
| Who found some rapture in the wind's caress | C |
| Beauty in humble weed and mint and cress | C |
| And sang with his incomparable art | G |
| The magic wonder of the wood and wild | H |
| The little people of the reeds and grass | C |
| Murmur their blithe companionable lore | E |
| The rills renew their minstrelsy Alas | C |
| He comes no more no more | E |
| And yet it seems as though he needs must come | I |
| Albeit he has cast off mortality | J |
| Such was his passion for the burgeoning time | K |
| Such to his spirit was the ecstasy | J |
| The hills and valleys chorus when set free | J |
| No music mute no lyric instinct dumb | I |
| But keyed to utterance of immortal rhyme | K |
| Ah haply in some other fairer spring | L |
| He sees bright tides sweep over slope and shore | E |
| But here how vain is all my visioning | L |
| He comes no more no more | E |
| Poet and friend wherever you may fare | M |
| Enwrapt in dreams I love to think of you | N |
| Wandering amid the meads of asphodel | O |
| Holding high converse with the exalted few | N |
| Who sought and found below the elusive clue | N |
| To beauty and in that diviner air | M |
| Bowing in worship still to its sweet spell | O |
| Why sorrow then though fate unkindly lays | C |
| Upon our questioning hearts this burden sore | E |
| And though through all our length of hastening days | C |
| He comes no more no more | E |
Madison Julius Cawein
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