Departure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBADADCAEAFEFGHAI JJIKLLADADLA| It was not like your great and gracious ways | A |
| Do you that have naught other to lament | B |
| Never my Love repent | B |
| Of how that July afternoon | C |
| You went | B |
| With sudden unintelligible phrase | A |
| And frighten'd eye | D |
| Upon your journey of so many days | A |
| Without a single kiss or a good bye | D |
| I knew indeed that you were parting soon | C |
| And so we sate within the low sun's rays | A |
| You whispering to me for your voice was weak | E |
| Your harrowing praise | A |
| Well it was well | F |
| To hear you such things speak | E |
| And I could tell | F |
| What made your eyes a growing gloom of love | G |
| As a warm South wind sombres a March grove | H |
| And it was like your great and gracious ways | A |
| To turn your talk on daily things my Dear | I |
| Lifting the luminous pathetic lash | J |
| To let the laughter flash | J |
| Whilst I drew near | I |
| Because you spoke so low that I could scarcely hear | K |
| But all at once to leave me at the last | L |
| More at the wonder than the loss aghast | L |
| With huddled unintelligible phrase | A |
| And frighten'd eye | D |
| And go your journey of all days | A |
| With not one kiss or a good bye | D |
| And the only loveless look the look with which you pass'd | L |
| 'Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways | A |
Coventry Patmore
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