A Leave-taking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCAA DDADEDD FFD DFF GGFGFGG EEGEGEE HHCHEHH| Let us go hence my songs she will not hear | A |
| Let us go hence together without fear | B |
| Keep silence now for singing time is over | C |
| And over all old things and all things dear | B |
| She loves not you nor me as all we love her | C |
| Yea though we sang as angels in her ear | A |
| She would not hear | A |
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| Let us rise up and part she will not know | D |
| Let us go seaward as the great winds go | D |
| Full of blown sand and foam what help is here | A |
| There is no help for all these things are so | D |
| And all the world is bitter as a tear | E |
| And how these things are though ye strove to show | D |
| She would not know | D |
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| Let us go home and hence she will not weep | F |
| We gave love many dreams and days to keep | F |
| Flowers without scent and fruits that would not grow | D |
| Saying 'If thou wilt thrust in thy sickle and reap ' | - |
| All is reaped now no grass is left to mow | D |
| And we that sowed though all we fell on sleep | F |
| She would not weep | F |
| - | |
| Let us go hence and rest she will not love | G |
| She shall not hear us if we sing hereof | G |
| Nor see love's ways how sore they are and steep | F |
| Come hence let be lie still it is enough | G |
| Love is a barren sea bitter and deep | F |
| And though she saw all heaven in flower above | G |
| She would not love | G |
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| Let us give up go down she will not care | E |
| Though all the stars made gold of all the air | E |
| And the sea moving saw before it move | G |
| One moon flower making all the foam flowers fair | E |
| Though all those waves went over us and drove | G |
| Deep down the stifling lips and drowning hair | E |
| She would not care | E |
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| Let us go hence go hence she will not see | H |
| Sing all once more together surely she | H |
| She too remembering days and words that were | C |
| Will turn a little toward us sighing but we | H |
| We are hence we are gone as though we had not been there | E |
| Nay and though all men seeing had pity on me | H |
| She would not see | H |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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