Valedictory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCEDE BFFBGHIBBIBJKJKKLLMN BOBPP KK HHBH| I had remarked how sharply one observes | A |
| When life is disappearing round the curves | A |
| Of yet another corner out of sight | B |
| I had remarked when it was 'good luck' and 'good night' | B |
| And 'a good journey to you ' on her face | C |
| Certain enigmas penned in the hieroglyphs | D |
| Of that half frown and queer fixed smile and trace | C |
| Of clouded thought in those brown eyes | E |
| Always so happily clear of hows and ifs | D |
| My poor bleared mind and haunting whys | E |
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| There I stood holding her farewell hand | B |
| Pressing my life and soul and all | F |
| The world to one good bye till small | F |
| And smaller pressed why there I'd stand | B |
| Dead when they vanished with the sight of her | G |
| And I saw that she had grown aware | H |
| Queer puzzled face of other things | I |
| Beyond the present and her own young speed | B |
| Of yesterday and what new days might breed | B |
| Monstrously when the future brings | I |
| A charger with your late lamented head | B |
| Aware of other people's lives and will | J |
| Aware perhaps aware even of me | K |
| The joyous hope of it But still | J |
| I pitied her for it was sad to see | K |
| A goddess shorn of her divinity | K |
| In the midst of her speed she had made pause | L |
| And doubts with all their threat of claws | L |
| Outstripped till now by her unconsciousness | M |
| Had seized on her she was proved mortal now | N |
| 'Live only live For you were meant | B |
| Never to know a thought's distress | O |
| But a long glad astonishment | B |
| At the world's beauty and your own | P |
| The pity of you goddess grown | P |
| Perplexed and mortal ' | - |
| Yet yet can it be | K |
| That she is aware perhaps even of me | K |
| - | |
| And life recedes recedes the curve is bare | H |
| My handkerchief flutters blankly in the air | H |
| And the question rumbles in the void | B |
| Was she aware was she after all aware | H |
Aldous Huxley
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