A Parting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBBDDEEFFGHIIJJFF KKLLMMNNDDJJOPQQEERR FSPPTTUUVVWWXXEEYYNN ZZA2A2KKB2B2A2A2C2C2 A2A2BBD2D2A2A2A2A2FS BBZZE2E2A2A2A2A2F2F2 G2G2H2H2

To a friend leaving England for a year's residence in AustraliaA
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These winds and suns of springB
That warm with breath and wingB
The trembling sleep of earth till half awakeC
She laughs and blushes ere her slumber breakC
For all good gifts they bringB
Require one better thingB
For all the loans of joy they lend us borrowD
One sharper dole of sorrowD
To sunder soon by half a world of seaE
Her son from England and my friend from meE
Nor hope nor love nor fearF
May speed or stay one yearF
Nor song nor prayer may bid as mine would fainG
The seasons perish and be born againH
Restoring all we lendI
Reluctant of a friendI
The voice the hand the presence and the sightJ
That lend their life and lightJ
To present gladness and heart strengthening cheerF
Now lent again for one reluctant yearF
So much we lend indeedK
Perforce by force of needK
So much we must even these things and no moreL
The far sea sundering and the sundered shoreL
A world apart from oursM
So much the imperious hoursM
Exact and spare not but no more than theseN
All earth and all her seasN
From thought and faith of trust and truth can borrowD
Not memory from desire nor hope from sorrowD
Through bright and dark and brightJ
Returns of day and nightJ
I bid the swift year speed and change and giveO
His breath of life to make the next year liveP
With sunnier suns for usQ
A life more prosperousQ
And laugh with flowers more fragrant that shall seeE
A merrier March for meE
A rosier girdled race of night with dayR
A goodlier April and a tenderer MayR
For him the inverted yearF
Shall mark our seasons hereS
With alien alternation and reviveP
This withered winter slaying the spring aliveP
With darts more sharply drawnT
As nearer draws the dawnT
In heaven transfigured over earth transformedU
And with our winters warmedU
And wasted with our summers till the beamsV
Rise on his face that rose on Dante's dreamsV
Till fourfold morning riseW
Of starshine on his eyesW
Dawn of the spheres that brand steep heaven acrossX
At height of night with semblance of a crossX
Whose grace and ghostly gloryE
Poured heaven on purgatoryE
Seeing with their flamelets risen all heaven grow gladY
For love thereof it hadY
And lovely joy of loving so may theseN
Make bright with welcome now their southern seasN
O happy stars whose mirthZ
The saddest soul on earthZ
That ever soared and sang found strong to blessA2
Lightening his life's harsh load of heavinessA2
With comfort sown like seedK
In dream though not in deedK
On sprinkled wastes of darkling thought divineB2
Let all your lights now shineB2
With all as glorious gladness on his eyesA2
For whom indeed and not in dream they riseA2
As those great twins of airC2
Hailed once with oldworld prayerC2
Of all folk alway faring forth by seaA2
So now may these for grace and guidance beA2
To guard his sail and bringB
Again to brighten springB
The face we look for and the hand we lackD2
Still till they light him backD2
As welcome as to first discovering eyesA2
Their light rose ever soon on his to riseA2
As parting now he goesA2
From snow time back to snowsA2
So back to spring from summer may next yearF
Restore him and our hearts receive him hereS
The best good gift that springB
Had ever grace to bringB
At fortune's happiest hour of star blest birthZ
Back to love's homebright earthZ
To eyes with eyes that commune hand with handE2
And the old warm bosom of all our mother landE2
Earth and sea wind and seaA2
And stars and sunlight beA2
Alike all prosperous for him and all hoursA2
Have all one heart and all that heart as oursA2
All things as good as strangeF2
Crown all the seasons' changeF2
With changing flower and compensating fruitG2
From one year's ripening rootG2
Till next year bring us roused at spring's recallH2
A heartier flower and goodlier fruit than allH2

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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