Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HFI JKJK FLFL MKMK NONP QMQM FRFR| Provoked By Calverley's Forever | A |
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| Farewell Another gloomy word | B |
| As ever into language crept | C |
| 'Tis often written never heard | B |
| Except | C |
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| In playhouse Ere the hero flits | D |
| In handcuffs from our pitying view | E |
| Farewell he murmurs then exits | D |
| R U | E |
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| Farewell is much too sighful for | F |
| An age that has not time to sigh | G |
| We say I'll see you later or | F |
| Good by | G |
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| When warned by chanticleer you go | H |
| From her to whom you owe devoir | F |
| Say not 'good by ' she laughs but | I |
| 'Au Revoir ' | - |
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| Thus from the garden are you sped | J |
| And Juliet were the first to tell | K |
| You you were silly if you said | J |
| Farewell | K |
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| Farewell meant long ago before | F |
| It crept tear spattered into song | L |
| Safe voyage Pleasant journey or | F |
| So long | L |
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| But gone its cheery old time ring | M |
| The poets made it rhyme with knell | K |
| Joined it became a dismal thing | M |
| Farewell | K |
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| Farewell into the lover's soul | N |
| You see Fate plunge the fatal iron | O |
| All poets use it It's the whole | N |
| Of Byron | P |
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| I only feel farewell said he | Q |
| And always fearful was the telling | M |
| Lord Byron was eternally | Q |
| Farewelling | M |
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| Farewell A dismal word 'tis true | F |
| And why not tell the truth about it | R |
| But what on earth would poets do | F |
| Without it | R |
Bert Leston Taylor
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