The Gleaner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL| As children gather daisies down green ways | A |
| Mid butterflies and bees | B |
| To day across the meadows of past days | A |
| I gathered memories | B |
| - | |
| I stored my heart with harvest of lost hours | C |
| With blossoms of spent years | D |
| Leaves that had known the sun of joy and hours | C |
| Drenched with the rain of tears | E |
| - | |
| And perfumes that were long ago distilled | F |
| From April's pink and white | G |
| Again with all their old enchantment filled | F |
| My spirit with delight | G |
| - | |
| From out the limbo where lost roses go | H |
| The place we may not see | I |
| With all its petals sweet and half ablow | J |
| One rose returned to me | I |
| - | |
| Where falls the sunlight chequered by the shade | K |
| On meadows of the past | L |
| I gathered blossoms that no sun can fade | K |
| No winter wind can blast | L |
Virna Sheard
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