The Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFCG HHII JKFF FFLL| As Men in Greenland left beheld the sun | A |
| From their horizon run | A |
| And thought upon the sad half year | B |
| Of cold and darkness they must suffer there | C |
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| So on my parting mistress did I look | D |
| With such swoln eyes my farewell took | D |
| Ah my fair star said I | E |
| Ah those blest lands to which bright Thou dost fly | E |
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| In vain the men of learning comfort me | F |
| And say I 'm in a warm degree | F |
| Say what they please I say and swear | C |
| 'T is beyond eighty at least if you're not here | G |
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| It is it is I tremble with the frost | H |
| And know that I the day have lost | H |
| And those wild things which men they call | I |
| I find to be but bears or foxes all | I |
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| Return return gay planet of mine East | J |
| Of all that shines thou much the best | K |
| And as thou now descend'st to sea | F |
| More fair and fresh rise up from thence to me | F |
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| Thou who in many a propriety | F |
| So truly art the sun to me | F |
| Add one more likeness which I'm sure you can | L |
| And let me and my sun beget a man | L |
Abraham Cowley
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