A Good-bye Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFFCC GGHHC IIJJCC KKLLCC| FAREWELL How soon unmeasured distance rolls | A |
| Its leaden clouds between our parted souls | A |
| How little to each other now are we | B |
| And once how much I dreamed we two might be | B |
| I who now stand with eyes undimmed and dry | C |
| To say good bye | C |
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| To say good bye to all sweet memories | D |
| Good bye to tender questions soft replies | E |
| Good bye to hope good bye to dreaming too | F |
| Good bye to all things dear good bye to you | F |
| Without a kiss a tear a prayer a sigh | C |
| Our last good bye | C |
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| I had no chain to bind you with at all | G |
| No grace to charm no beauty to enthral | G |
| No power to hold your eyes with mine and make | H |
| Your heart on fire with longing for my sake | H |
| Till all the yearning passed into one cry | C |
| 'Love not good bye ' | - |
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| Ah no I had no strength like that you know | I |
| Yet my worst weakness was to love you so | I |
| So much too well so much too well or ill | J |
| Yet even that might have been pardoned still | J |
| It would have been had I been you you I | C |
| But now good bye | C |
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| How soon the bitter follows on the sweet | K |
| Could I not chain your fancy's flying feet | K |
| Could I not hold your soul to make you play | L |
| To morrow in the key of yesterday | L |
| Dear do you dream that I would stoop to try | C |
| Ah no Good bye | C |
Edith Nesbit
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