Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FBGB HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO| Farewell to thee but not farewell | A |
| To all my fondest thoughts of thee | B |
| Within my heart they still shall dwell | A |
| And they shall cheer and comfort me | B |
| O beautiful and full of grace | C |
| If thou hadst never met mine eye | D |
| I had not dreamed a living face | C |
| Could fancied charms so far outvie | E |
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| If I may ne'er behold again | F |
| That form and face so dear to me | B |
| Nor hear thy voice still would I fain | G |
| Preserve for aye their memory | B |
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| That voice the magic of whose tone | H |
| Can wake an echo in my breast | I |
| Creating feelings that alone | H |
| Can make my tranced spirit blest | I |
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| That laughing eye whose sunny beam | J |
| My memory would not cherish less | K |
| And oh that smile whose joyous gleam | J |
| Nor mortal language can express | K |
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| Adieu but let me cherish still | L |
| The hope with which I cannot part | M |
| Contempt may wound and coldness chill | L |
| But still it lingers in my heart | M |
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| And who can tell but Heaven at last | N |
| May answer all my thousand prayers | O |
| And bid the future pay the past | N |
| With joy for anguish smiles for tears | O |
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