The Widow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GHCCIIAAJJ KK| Grief hath pacified her face | A |
| Even hope might share so still a place | A |
| Yet on the silence of her heart | B |
| Haply if a strange footfall start | B |
| Or a chance word of ecstasy | C |
| Cry through dim cloistered memory | C |
| Into her eyes her soul will steal | D |
| To gaze into the irrevocable | E |
| As if death had not power to keep | F |
| One who has loved her long asleep | F |
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| Now all things lovely she looks on | G |
| Seem lovely in oblivion | H |
| And all things mute what shall not be | C |
| Richer than any melody | C |
| Her narrow hands like birds that make | I |
| A nest for some old instinct's sake | I |
| Have hollowed a refuge for her face | A |
| A narrow and a quiet place | A |
| Where far from the world's light she may | J |
| See clearer what is passed away | J |
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| And only little children know | K |
| Through what dark gates her smile may go | K |
Walter De La Mare
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