Fare Thee Well, O Love Of Woman! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI EJEJHDHD ABABCDCD| Fare thee well O Love of Woman | A |
| Lip of Beauty fare thee well | B |
| Thy soft heart divinely human | A |
| Holds me by a magic spell | B |
| All that grieves me now to perish | C |
| Is the loss of one bright eye | D |
| And I still the vision cherish | C |
| While I lay me down to die | D |
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| At my headstone kindly kneeling | E |
| May I beg a votive tear | F |
| Woman with her pure appealing | E |
| Is my angel at the bier | G |
| Let me have but one such linger | H |
| Praying Christ to help and save | I |
| Let me have but one dear finger | H |
| Place a chaplet on my grave | I |
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| Though the soldier dies in dying | E |
| The true lover never dies | J |
| Upward from his embers flying | E |
| He transfigures in the skies | J |
| Heaven is rare but Love is rarer | H |
| Whether it be blest or crost | D |
| Heaven blooms fair but Love blooms fairer | H |
| But O God at what a cost | D |
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| Fare thee well O Love of Woman | A |
| Lip of Beauty fare thee well | B |
| Thy soft heart divinely human | A |
| Holds me by a magic spell | B |
| All that grieves me now to perish | C |
| Is the loss of one bright eye | D |
| And I still the vision cherish | C |
| While I lay me down to die | D |
A. H. Laidlaw
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