When I Am Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHI JJKLMMNNOOPPQQRRMMSS TTI UUVVWWXXYYZA2B2B2C2C 2D2D2GGE2E2F2F2I| When I am gone I pray you shed | A |
| No tears upon the grassy bed | A |
| Where that which you have loved is laid | B |
| Under the wind warped yew tree's shade | B |
| And let no sombre pomp prepare | C |
| My unreturning journey there | C |
| Nor wailing words nor dirges deep | D |
| Disturb the quiet of my sleep | D |
| But tender maidens robed in white | E |
| Who have not yet forgotten quite | E |
| The love I sought the love I gave | F |
| Be the sole mourners round my grave | F |
| And neither then nor after raise | G |
| The bust of pride the slab of praise | G |
| To him who having sinned and striven | H |
| Now only asks to be forgiven | H |
| That he is gone | I |
| - | |
| When I am gone you must not deem | J |
| That I am severed as I seem | J |
| From all that still enchains you here | K |
| Throughout the long revolving year | L |
| When as to Winter's barren shore | M |
| The tides of Spring return once more | M |
| And wakened by their flashing showers | N |
| The woodland foams afresh with flowers | N |
| You sally forth and ramble wide | O |
| I shall walk silent at your side | O |
| Shall watch your mirth shall catch your smile | P |
| Shall wander with you all the while | P |
| And as in many a bygone Spring | Q |
| Hear cuckoo call and ousel sing | Q |
| And when you homeward wend along | R |
| A land all blithe with bleat and song | R |
| Where lambs that skip and larks that soar | M |
| Make this old world seem young once more | M |
| And with the wildwood flowers that fill | S |
| Your April laps deck shelf and sill | S |
| I shall be there to guide your hand | T |
| And you will surely understand | T |
| I am not gone | I |
| - | |
| When Summer leans on Autumn's arm | U |
| And warm round grange and red roofed farm | U |
| Is piled the wain and thatched the stack | V |
| And swallows troop and fieldfares pack | V |
| When round rough trunk and knotted root | W |
| Lies thick the freshly fallen fruit | W |
| And 'mong the orchard aisles you muse | X |
| On what we gain on what we lose | X |
| Now vernal cares no more annoy | Y |
| And wisdom takes the place of joy | Y |
| I shall be there as in past years | Z |
| To share your steps to dry your tears | A2 |
| To note how Autumn days have brought | B2 |
| Feelings mature and mellow thought | B2 |
| The fruitful grief for others' smart | C2 |
| The ripeness of a human heart | C2 |
| And when the winds wax rude and loud | D2 |
| And Winter weaves the stark year's shroud | D2 |
| As round the flickering household blaze | G |
| You sit and talk of vanished days | G |
| Of parent friend no longer nigh | E2 |
| And loves that in the churchyard lie | E2 |
| And lips grow weak and lids grow wet | F2 |
| Then then I shall be with you yet | F2 |
| Though I seem gone | I |
Alfred Austin
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