Elegy For Jane Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCDEACFA GCHCIJKL MNOCC| My student thrown by a horse | A |
| - | |
| I remember the neckcurls limp and damp as tendrils | A |
| And her quick look a sidelong pickerel smile | B |
| And how once started into talk the light syllables leaped for her | C |
| And she balanced in the delight of her thought | D |
| A wren happy tail into the wind | E |
| Her song trembling the twigs and small branches | A |
| The shade sang with her | C |
| The leaves their whispers turned to kissing | F |
| And the mould sang in the bleached valleys under the rose | A |
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| Oh when she was sad she cast herself down into such a pure depth | G |
| Even a father could not find her | C |
| Scraping her cheek against straw | H |
| Stirring the clearest water | C |
| My sparrow you are not here | I |
| Waiting like a fern making a spiney shadow | J |
| The sides of wet stones cannot console me | K |
| Nor the moss wound with the last light | L |
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| If only I could nudge you from this sleep | M |
| My maimed darling my skittery pigeon | N |
| Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love | O |
| I with no rights in this matter | C |
| Neither father nor lover | C |
Theodore Roethke
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