A Woman's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDDBEEBFFBGGBHH BIIB JJBKKBGBBLLB| SO with this farewell kiss I taste at last | A |
| The all of life the Future and the Past | A |
| Upon your dear lips dwell | B |
| Love will not come again though I implore | C |
| And in my heart a twilight evermore | C |
| Farewell | B |
| A man's heart is so wide that I was wrong | D |
| To dream that I could fill it with the song | D |
| A woman loves so well | B |
| A woman's heart is narrow but I filled | E |
| Mine brimming with your kisses none was spilled | E |
| Farewell | B |
| So fierce your love was I was half afraid | F |
| The roses blossom and the roses fade | F |
| The withered petals tell | B |
| So high into your heart you lifted me | G |
| So far I have to fall since it must be | G |
| Farewell | B |
| Now all the world I fashioned round me falls | H |
| And from the past one memory calls and calls | H |
| Grieving and like a knell | B |
| Now all the days like drear regrets shall seem | I |
| And all the nights the nights I dare not dream | I |
| Farewell | B |
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| But what if I can hold you hold you yet | J |
| Till all else but my lips you must forget | J |
| If love could but compel | B |
| But all the mystic hopes our hearts have heard | K |
| Must droop and wither to this wistful word | K |
| Farewell | B |
| My love was like a little child to me | G |
| Now in my heart 't is crying piteously | B |
| Hush dear all will be well | B |
| My lips on yours for ever Say again | L |
| You love me though it be not true and then | L |
| Farewell | B |
Arthur Henry Adams
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