To Cleïs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBDEEDFGGFEHHEEIIE JKKJ| The daughter of Sappho | A |
| - | |
| When the dusk was wet with dew | B |
| Cle iuml s did the muses nine | C |
| Listen in a silent line | C |
| While your mother sang to you | B |
| Did they weep or did they smile | D |
| When she crooned to still your cries | E |
| She a muse in human guise | E |
| Who forsook her lyre awhile | D |
| Did you hear her wild heart beat | F |
| Did the warmth of all the sun | G |
| Through your little body run | G |
| When she kissed your hands and feet | F |
| Did your fingers babywise | E |
| Touch her face and touch her hair | H |
| Did you think your mother fair | H |
| Could you bear her burning eyes | E |
| Are the songs that soothed your fears | E |
| Vanished like a vanished flame | I |
| Save the line where shines your name | I |
| Starlike down the graying years | E |
| Cleis speaks no word to me | J |
| For the land where she has gone | K |
| Lies as still at dusk and dawn | K |
| As a windless tideless sea | J |
Sara Teasdale
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