Embers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF AHIH JKLKI said My youth is gone | A |
Like a fire beaten out by the rain | B |
That will never sway and sing | C |
Or play with the wind again | D |
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I said It is no great sorrow | E |
That quenched my youth in me | F |
But only little sorrows | G |
Beating ceaselessly | F |
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I thought my youth was gone | A |
But you returned | H |
Like a flame at the call of the wind | I |
It leaped and burned | H |
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Threw off its ashen cloak | J |
And gowned anew | K |
Gave itself like a bride | L |
Once more to you | K |
Sara Teasdale
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