Serenade
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
DARK is the iris meadow,
Dark is the ivory tower,
And lightly the young moth's shadow
Sleeps on the passion-flower.
Gone are our day's red roses.
So lovely and lost and few,
But the first star uncloses
A silver bud in the blue.
Night, and a flame in the embers
Where the seal of the years was set,–
When the almond-bough remembers
How shall my heart forget ?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 367 |
| Words | 70 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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