At Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDEEFF GGHIIGJJ KKLLMMNN AOOPQRRGGJJSSTTUI| And you could leave me now | A |
| After the first remembered whispered vow | A |
| Which sings for ever and ever in my ears | B |
| The vow which God among His Angels hears | C |
| After the long drawn years | B |
| The slow hard tears | D |
| Could break new ground and wake | E |
| A new strange garden to blossom for your sake | E |
| And leave me here alone | F |
| In the old garden that was once our own | F |
| - | |
| How should I learn to bear | G |
| Our garden's pleasant ways and pleasant air | G |
| Her flowers her fruits her lily her rose and thorn | H |
| When only in a picture these appear | I |
| These once alive and always over dear | I |
| Ah think again the rose you used to wear | G |
| Must still be more than other roses be | J |
| The flower of flowers Ah pity pity me | J |
| - | |
| For in my acres is no plot of ground | K |
| Whereon could any garden site be found | K |
| I have but little skill | L |
| To water weed and till | L |
| And make the desert blossom like the rose | M |
| Yet our old garden knows | M |
| If I have loved its ways and walks and kept | N |
| The garden watered and the pleasance swept | N |
| - | |
| Yet if you must go now | A |
| Go with my blessing filling both your hands | O |
| And mid the desert sands | O |
| Which life drifts deep round every garden wall | P |
| Make your new festival | Q |
| Of bud and blossom red rose and green leaf | R |
| No blight born of my grief | R |
| Shall touch your garden love but my heart's prayer | G |
| Shall draw down blessings on you from the air | G |
| And all we learned of leaf and plant and tree | J |
| Shall serve you when you walk no more with me | J |
| In garden ways and when with her you tread | S |
| The pleasant ways with blossoms overhead | S |
| And when she asks How did you come to know | T |
| The secrets of the ways these green things grow | T |
| Then you will answer and I please God hear | U |
| I had another garden once my dear | I |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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