The Riddle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCBDBDC A EFGFFEGGF| I | A |
| - | |
| Stretching eyes west | B |
| Over the sea | C |
| Wind foul or fair | D |
| Always stood she | C |
| Prospect impressed | B |
| Solely out there | D |
| Did her gaze rest | B |
| Never elsewhere | D |
| Seemed charm to be | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| Always eyes east | E |
| Ponders she now | F |
| As in devotion | G |
| Hills of blank brow | F |
| Where no waves plough | F |
| Never the least | E |
| Room for emotion | G |
| Drawn from the ocean | G |
| Does she allow | F |
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Jack A Butler: mentioned in Martha Grimes's novel Vertigo 42. Poem reads to me like a woman who was always looking far out and away for love and beauty, never up close, and as a result now cannot accept or believe in such love or beauty.
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