A Parting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBBDDEEFFGHIIJJFF KKLLMMNNDDJJOPQQEERR FSPPTTUUVVWWXXEEYYNN ZZA2A2KKB2B2A2A2C2C2 A2A2BBD2D2A2A2A2A2FS BBZZE2E2A2A2A2A2F2F2 G2G2H2H2To a friend leaving England for a year's residence in Australia | A |
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These winds and suns of spring | B |
That warm with breath and wing | B |
The trembling sleep of earth till half awake | C |
She laughs and blushes ere her slumber break | C |
For all good gifts they bring | B |
Require one better thing | B |
For all the loans of joy they lend us borrow | D |
One sharper dole of sorrow | D |
To sunder soon by half a world of sea | E |
Her son from England and my friend from me | E |
Nor hope nor love nor fear | F |
May speed or stay one year | F |
Nor song nor prayer may bid as mine would fain | G |
The seasons perish and be born again | H |
Restoring all we lend | I |
Reluctant of a friend | I |
The voice the hand the presence and the sight | J |
That lend their life and light | J |
To present gladness and heart strengthening cheer | F |
Now lent again for one reluctant year | F |
So much we lend indeed | K |
Perforce by force of need | K |
So much we must even these things and no more | L |
The far sea sundering and the sundered shore | L |
A world apart from ours | M |
So much the imperious hours | M |
Exact and spare not but no more than these | N |
All earth and all her seas | N |
From thought and faith of trust and truth can borrow | D |
Not memory from desire nor hope from sorrow | D |
Through bright and dark and bright | J |
Returns of day and night | J |
I bid the swift year speed and change and give | O |
His breath of life to make the next year live | P |
With sunnier suns for us | Q |
A life more prosperous | Q |
And laugh with flowers more fragrant that shall see | E |
A merrier March for me | E |
A rosier girdled race of night with day | R |
A goodlier April and a tenderer May | R |
For him the inverted year | F |
Shall mark our seasons here | S |
With alien alternation and revive | P |
This withered winter slaying the spring alive | P |
With darts more sharply drawn | T |
As nearer draws the dawn | T |
In heaven transfigured over earth transformed | U |
And with our winters warmed | U |
And wasted with our summers till the beams | V |
Rise on his face that rose on Dante's dreams | V |
Till fourfold morning rise | W |
Of starshine on his eyes | W |
Dawn of the spheres that brand steep heaven across | X |
At height of night with semblance of a cross | X |
Whose grace and ghostly glory | E |
Poured heaven on purgatory | E |
Seeing with their flamelets risen all heaven grow glad | Y |
For love thereof it had | Y |
And lovely joy of loving so may these | N |
Make bright with welcome now their southern seas | N |
O happy stars whose mirth | Z |
The saddest soul on earth | Z |
That ever soared and sang found strong to bless | A2 |
Lightening his life's harsh load of heaviness | A2 |
With comfort sown like seed | K |
In dream though not in deed | K |
On sprinkled wastes of darkling thought divine | B2 |
Let all your lights now shine | B2 |
With all as glorious gladness on his eyes | A2 |
For whom indeed and not in dream they rise | A2 |
As those great twins of air | C2 |
Hailed once with oldworld prayer | C2 |
Of all folk alway faring forth by sea | A2 |
So now may these for grace and guidance be | A2 |
To guard his sail and bring | B |
Again to brighten spring | B |
The face we look for and the hand we lack | D2 |
Still till they light him back | D2 |
As welcome as to first discovering eyes | A2 |
Their light rose ever soon on his to rise | A2 |
As parting now he goes | A2 |
From snow time back to snows | A2 |
So back to spring from summer may next year | F |
Restore him and our hearts receive him here | S |
The best good gift that spring | B |
Had ever grace to bring | B |
At fortune's happiest hour of star blest birth | Z |
Back to love's homebright earth | Z |
To eyes with eyes that commune hand with hand | E2 |
And the old warm bosom of all our mother land | E2 |
Earth and sea wind and sea | A2 |
And stars and sunlight be | A2 |
Alike all prosperous for him and all hours | A2 |
Have all one heart and all that heart as ours | A2 |
All things as good as strange | F2 |
Crown all the seasons' change | F2 |
With changing flower and compensating fruit | G2 |
From one year's ripening root | G2 |
Till next year bring us roused at spring's recall | H2 |
A heartier flower and goodlier fruit than all | H2 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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