Valedictory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCEDE FGGFHIJKKJLMNMNNOOPQ RSTUUVNN IIWI

I had remarked how sharply one observesA
When life is disappearing round the curvesA
Of yet another corner out of sightB
I had remarked when it was good luck and good nightB
And a good journey to you on her faceC
Certain enigmas penned in the hieroglyphsD
Of that half frown and queer fixed smile and traceC
Of clouded thought in those brown eyesE
Always so happily clear of hows and ifsD
My poor bleared mind and haunting whysE
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There I stood holding her farewell handF
Pressing my life and soul and allG
The world to one good bye till smallG
And smaller pressed why there I'd standF
Dead when they vanished with the sight of herH
And I saw that she had grown awareI
Queer puzzled face of other thingsJ
Beyond the present and her own young speedK
Of yesterday and what new days might breedK
Monstrously when the future bringsJ
A charger with your late lamented headL
Aware of other people's lives and willM
Aware perhaps aware even of meN
The joyous hope of it But stillM
I pitied her for it was sad to seeN
A goddess shorn of her divinityN
In the midst of her speed she had made pauseO
And doubts with all their threat of clawsO
Outstripped till now by her unconsciousnessP
Had seized on her she was proved mortal nowQ
Live only live For you were meantR
Never to know a thought's distressS
But a long glad astonishmentT
At the world's beauty and your ownU
The pity of you goddess grownU
Perplexed and mortalV
Yet yet can it beN
That she is aware perhaps even of meN
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And life recedes recedes the curve is bareI
My handkerchief flutters blankly in the airI
And the question rumbles in the voidW
Was she aware was she after all awareI

Aldous Leonard Huxley



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