The Maiden's Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG EHEH IJIK LMLM NANO| Seven long years has the desert rain | A |
| Dropped on the clods that hide thy face | B |
| Seven long years of sorrow and pain | A |
| I have thought of thy burial place | B |
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| Thought of thy fate in the distant west | C |
| Dying with none that loved thee near | D |
| They who flung the earth on thy breast | C |
| Turned from the spot williout a tear | E |
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| There I think on that lonely grave | F |
| Violets spring in the soft May shower | G |
| There in the summer breezes wave | F |
| Crimson phlox and moccasin flower | G |
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| There the turtles alight and there | E |
| Feeds with her fawn the timid doe | H |
| There when the winter woods are bare | E |
| Walks the wolf on the crackling snow | H |
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| Soon wilt thou wipe my tears away | I |
| All my task upon earth is done | J |
| My poor father old and gray | I |
| Slumbers beneath the churchyard stone | K |
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| In the dreams of my lonely bed | L |
| Ever thy form before me seems | M |
| All night long I talk with the dead | L |
| All day long I think of my dreams | M |
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| This deep wound that bleeds and aches | N |
| This long pain a sleepless pain | A |
| When the Father my spirit takes | N |
| I shall feel it no more again | O |
William Cullen Bryant
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