A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDA EFGGFE HIJJIH| Good bye good bye it is not hard to part | A |
| You have my heart the heart that leaps to hear | B |
| Your name called by an echo in a dream | C |
| You have my soul that like an untroubled stream | C |
| Reflects your soul that leans so dear so near | D |
| Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart | A |
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| What more could Life give if we gave her leave | E |
| To give and Life should give us leave to take | F |
| Only each other's arms each other's eyes | G |
| Each other's lips the clinging secrecies | G |
| That are but as the written words to make | F |
| Records of what the heart and soul achieve | E |
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| This only this we yield my love my friend | H |
| To Fate's implacable eyes and withering breath | I |
| We still are yours and mine though by Time's theft | J |
| My arms are empty and your arms bereft | J |
| It is not hard to part not harder than Death | I |
| And each of us must face Death in the end | H |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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