A Song Of Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DDEEFFGHHIJKKGDDD DLMDDIINOONM PPQRQ PSSTSD DT T UUVWVWM MXRRX T TTMMDDRRRYYYDDDP T ZXZZXXZDDRRDEDICATION | A |
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QUEEN of my Life who gave me for my song | B |
The richest crown a poet ever wore | C |
Since I have given you songs a whole year long | B |
Stoop of your grace and take this one song more | C |
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I | - |
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It was upon a golden first June day | D |
I chanced to take the quiet meadow way | D |
The flowers and grasses met across my feet | E |
Red sorrel daisies and pale meadow sweet | E |
With buttercup that set the field ablaze | F |
The fields have no such flowers now a days | F |
The hedges all along were pearly white | G |
And there I met with Chloris all alone | H |
I drew her face to lean against my own | H |
The branch of May that hid her maiden eyes | I |
Was scented like the rose of Paradise | J |
The May bough fell I knew what youth was worth | K |
And sunshine and the pleasant green gowned earth | K |
When first love rhymed to summer and delight | G |
Yet since my ship must sail away that day | D |
Despair new born met new born joy half way | D |
And I 'mid rapture and tears found voice to say | D |
'Farewell my Love to leave you is to die | - |
I never shall forget you dear Good bye ' | - |
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II | - |
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At parting from Clarinda life was gray | D |
With the cold haze of mutual weariness | L |
The treasure our souls were bartered to possess | M |
We saw as ashes in the cold new day | D |
And only longed for leave to steal away | D |
And wash remembrance from our tired eyes | I |
To cleanse our lips of kisses and of lies | I |
And to forget the barren fairy gold | N |
For which we had journeyed such a weary road | O |
Had borne so hard a chain so great a load | O |
Yet none the less was the old story told | N |
The old refrain re iterate none the less | M |
'My life's one love ' we said with sigh for sigh | - |
'I never can forget you dear Good bye ' | - |
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III | - |
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You were so innocent so sure so shy | - |
Life was a chart well marked for you you knew | P |
With rocks and quicksands plainly set in view | P |
And fitly beaconed by a heavenly star | Q |
The port you sought marked unmistakeably | R |
Attainable and not so very far | Q |
So of your charity you chose to try | - |
To take a pirate bark to haven with you | P |
Ah child I had learned to steer on other seas | S |
Through other shoals by other stars than these | S |
My chart had other ports you knew not of | T |
And so one day my black sails took the breeze | S |
And ere you knew it I was leagues away | D |
Yet not so far but you could hear me cry | - |
Across the waters of your sheltered bay | D |
'Farewell my child Farewell my only love | T |
I never can forget you dear Good bye ' | - |
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IV | T |
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When I had courted Chloe half a year | U |
She bade me go she could not hold me dear | U |
We parted in the orchard very late | V |
The dew lay on the white sweet clover flowers | W |
The moon shone through the pear tree by the gate | V |
And on the grass the blossoms fell in showers | W |
'Pray Heaven ' I cried 'to bless you none the less | M |
That you have cursed my life eternally ' | - |
She laughed my pretty china shepherdess | M |
Kissed her white hand towards the white full moon | X |
'Up there ' she said 'the folk who say farewell | R |
Never intone it to a funeral bell | R |
But sing it to the sweet old fashioned tune | X |
Go there and learn ' 'I have learned that tune ' quoth I | - |
''I never can forget you dear Good bye '' | - |
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V | T |
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In that far land where myrtles dream of love | T |
Where soft winds whisper through the orange grove | T |
And 'twixt the sapphire of the seas and skies | M |
The sunshine of perpetual summer lies | M |
I brought white flowers to lie where Clemence lay | D |
The shutters closed strove with the radiant day | D |
And in her villa all was still and chill | R |
Flowers die they say but these flowers never will | R |
Whenever I see a rose I smell them still | R |
I laid them by her on the strait white bed | Y |
There were no kisses given no tears were shed | Y |
And never a whisper of farewell was said | Y |
Yet when they had laid her underneath the clay | D |
And paid their prayers and tears and gone their way | D |
My heart stirred and I found the old word to say | D |
This time this one time and this last time true | P |
'White lady my white flowers touch you where you lie | - |
I never shall forget you Dear good bye ' | - |
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Envoy | T |
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Queen of my life and of the songs I sing | Z |
Whose love sets life to such a royal tune | X |
This song of parting to your hands I bring | Z |
As I bring honour and faith and everything | Z |
Because I know our parting shall be soon | X |
Since violets hardly live one happy moon | X |
And love full fledged is ready to take wing | Z |
But when he flies part we the silent way | D |
And if you ever loved me do not say | D |
'Farewell my only love I love you still | R |
I never will forget you ' For you will | R |
Edith Nesbit
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