Leave-taking Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCAA DDADEDD FFD DFF GGFGFGG EEGEGEE HHCHEHHLet 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 |
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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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