Song Before Death: From The French Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFCD GHIHCDSWEET MOTHER in a minute s span | A |
Death parts thee and my love of thee | B |
Sweet love that yet art living man | A |
Come back true love to comfort me | B |
Back ah come back ah wellaway | C |
But my love comes not any day | D |
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As roses when the warm West blows | E |
Break to full flower and sweeten spring | F |
My soul would break to a glorious rose | E |
In such wise at his whispering | F |
In vain I listen wellaway | C |
My love says nothing any day | D |
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You that will weep for pity of love | G |
On the low place where I am lain | H |
I pray you having wept enough | I |
Tell him for whom I bore such pain | H |
That he was yet ah wellaway | C |
My true love to my dying day | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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