Why Sad To-day? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGGG HIHI JKJK| Why is the nameless sorrowing look | A |
| So often thought a whim | B |
| God willed the willow shades the brook | A |
| The gray owl sings a hymn | B |
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| Sadly the winds change and the rain | C |
| Comes where the sunlight fell | D |
| Sad is our story told again | E |
| Which past years told so well | D |
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| Why not love sorrow and the glance | F |
| That ends in silent tears | G |
| If we count up the world's mischance | G |
| Grieving is in arrears | G |
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| Why should I know why I could weep | H |
| The old urns cannot read | I |
| The names they wear of kings they keep | H |
| In ashes both are dead | I |
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| And like an urn the heart must hold | J |
| Aims of an age gone by | K |
| What the aims were we are not told | J |
| We hold them who knows why | K |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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