Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCA AADDEEA FGHHFGF FGIIJJF KLMMNNK LKNNOOL| O tell me friends while yet we part | A |
| And heart can yet be heard of heart | A |
| O tell me then for what is it | B |
| Our early plan of life we quit | B |
| From all our old intentions range | C |
| And why does all so wholly change | C |
| O tell me friends while yet we part | A |
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| O tell me friends while yet we part | A |
| The rays that from the centre start | A |
| Within the orb of one warm sun | D |
| Unless I err have once begun | D |
| Why is it thus they still diverge | E |
| And whither tends the course they urge | E |
| O tell me friends while yet we part | A |
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| O tell me friends while yet ye hear | F |
| May it not be some coming year | G |
| These ancient paths that here divide | H |
| Shall yet again run side by side | H |
| And you from there and I from here | F |
| All on a sudden reappear | G |
| O tell me friends while yet ye hear | F |
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| O tell me friends ye hardly hear | F |
| And if indeed ye did I fear | G |
| Ye would not say ye would not speak | I |
| Are you so strong am I so weak | I |
| And yet how much so e'er I yearn | J |
| Can I not follow nor you turn | J |
| O tell me friends ye hardly hear | F |
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| O tell me friends ere words are o'er | K |
| There's something in me sad and sore | L |
| Repines and underneath my eyes | M |
| I feel a somewhat that would rise | M |
| O tell me O my friends and you | N |
| Do you feel nothing like it too | N |
| O tell me friends ere words are o'er | K |
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| O tell me friends that are no more | L |
| Do you too think ere it is o'er | K |
| Old times shall yet come round as erst | N |
| And we be friends as we were first | N |
| Or do you judge that all is vain | O |
| Except that rule that none complain | O |
| O tell me friends that are no more | L |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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