The Abandoned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH CCAA IIJJ KKJJ LLJJ DDAA MNOO JJP EEAA| SHE sat by the wayside and wept where roses red roses and white | A |
| Lay wasted and withered and sere like her life and its ruined delight | A |
| Like chaff blown about in the wind whirled roses white roses and red | B |
| And pale on night's threshold the moon bent over the day that was dead | B |
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| She sat by the wayside and wept far over the desolate plain | C |
| A noise as of one that is weeping re echoed in wind and in rain | C |
| And the long dim line of the spectral poplars with dolorous wail | D |
| Nodded their bald headed tops as they chattered with cold in the gale | D |
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| She sat by the wayside and wept in a passion of vain desire | E |
| And her weak heart fluttered and failed like the flame of a faltering fire | E |
| Fluttered and failed in her breast like the broken wing of a bird | F |
| When its feathers are dabbled with gore and the low last gurgle is heard | F |
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| And behold like balm on her soul while she sat by the wayside and wept | G |
| There came a forgetting of sorrow a lulling of grief and she slept | G |
| Yea like the wings of a dove when cooing it broods on the nest | H |
| So the wings of slumber about her assuaged and filled her with rest | H |
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| And a light that was not the sun's nor the moon's light illumined her brain | C |
| From afar in the country of dreams three maidens stole over the plain | C |
| Three loveliest maidens they were like roses red roses and white | A |
| And behold the earth and the heavens were glorified in their light | A |
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| And the first of the maidens was fair as fair as the blue kirtled Spring | I |
| When she comes with a snowfall of blossoms and a rustling of birds on the wing | I |
| When a glimmer of green like a tide rolls over the woodland and vales | J |
| And odours are blown on the winds with the song of the nightingales | J |
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| The second was loftier of stature a huntress of grief | K |
| The wilderness glowed as she passed and broke into blossom and leaf | K |
| Yea it seemed that her upturned eyes with their fathomless gaze | J |
| Could pierce to the shining stars through the veil of the noonday blaze | J |
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| But the third was a splendour incarnate a luminous form | L |
| Thrilling with raptures that keep the heart of the cold earth warm | L |
| Who hidden far in the mystical glory of quivering rays | J |
| Sets the whole world on fire for an absolute sight of her face | J |
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| But darkling ever they see her and ever as through a veil | D |
| For if naked she lightens upon them their lives must shrivel and fail | D |
| Must fail and shrivel consumed by that burst of insufferable light | A |
| As a tree set on fire by lightning which burns to the ground in a night | A |
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| The first one kissed her cheek her cheek grew pallid and wan | M |
| 'Goodbye ' she cried 'we must part I am Youth and I follow the sun | N |
| I am Youth and I love to build in the heart that is buoyant and gay | O |
| Goodbye we shall meet not again ' she cried as she fluttered away | O |
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| The second she kissed her eyes then the glamour went out of their gaze | J |
| Through the magical show she beheld life staring her straight in the face | J |
| With a terrible Gorgon stare that turned her heart into stone | P |
| 'Adieu ' she sighed 'I am Hope all is over between us and done ' | - |
| The third one she kissed her lips and the kiss was a quenchless fire | E |
| It burned up her life like a victim's in the flames of a funeral pyre | E |
| 'Farewell ' she wailed 'I am Love ' and her wings were spread as for flight | A |
| It seemed like the wail of the wind as they left her alone with the night | A |
Mathilde Blind
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