Valedictory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCEDE FGGFHIJKKJLMNMNNOOPQ RSTUUVNN IIWII 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 | F |
Pressing my life and soul and all | G |
The world to one good bye till small | G |
And smaller pressed why there I'd stand | F |
Dead when they vanished with the sight of her | H |
And I saw that she had grown aware | I |
Queer puzzled face of other things | J |
Beyond the present and her own young speed | K |
Of yesterday and what new days might breed | K |
Monstrously when the future brings | J |
A charger with your late lamented head | L |
Aware of other people's lives and will | M |
Aware perhaps aware even of me | N |
The joyous hope of it But still | M |
I pitied her for it was sad to see | N |
A goddess shorn of her divinity | N |
In the midst of her speed she had made pause | O |
And doubts with all their threat of claws | O |
Outstripped till now by her unconsciousness | P |
Had seized on her she was proved mortal now | Q |
Live only live For you were meant | R |
Never to know a thought's distress | S |
But a long glad astonishment | T |
At the world's beauty and your own | U |
The pity of you goddess grown | U |
Perplexed and mortal | V |
Yet yet can it be | N |
That she is aware perhaps even of me | N |
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And life recedes recedes the curve is bare | I |
My handkerchief flutters blankly in the air | I |
And the question rumbles in the void | W |
Was she aware was she after all aware | I |
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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