To Lucy Hinton: December 19, 1921 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEEFFGG EEHHGIJ KLAKAK MMNOP P| O loveliest face on which we look our last | A |
| Not without hope we may again behold | B |
| Somewhere somehow when we ourselves have passed | A |
| Where Lucy you have gone this face so dear | C |
| That gathered beauty every changing year | C |
| And made Youth dream of some day being old | B |
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| Some knew the girl and some the woman grown | D |
| And each was fair but always 'twas your way | E |
| To be more beautiful than yesterday | E |
| To win where others lose and Time the doom | F |
| Of other faces brought to yours new bloom | F |
| Now even from Death you snatch mysterious grace | G |
| This last perfection for your lovely face | G |
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| So with your spirit was it day by day | E |
| That spirit unextinguishably gay | E |
| That to the very border of the shade | H |
| Laughed on the muttering darkness unafraid | H |
| We shall be lonely for your lovely face | G |
| Lonely for all your great and gracious ways | I |
| But for your laughter loneliest of all | J |
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| Yet in our loneliness we think of one | K |
| Lonely no more who on the heavenly stair | L |
| Awaits your face and hears your step at last | A |
| His dreamer's eyes a glory like the sun | K |
| Again in his sad arms to hold you fast | A |
| All your long honeymoon in heaven begun | K |
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| Thinking on that O dear and loveliest friend | M |
| We in that bright beginning of this end | M |
| Must bate our grief and count our mortal loss | N |
| Only as his and your immortal gain | O |
| Glad that for him and you it is so well | P |
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| Lucy O Lucy a little while farewell | P |
Richard Le Gallienne
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