A Song Of Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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DEDICATIONA
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QUEEN of my Life who gave me for my songB
The richest crown a poet ever woreC
Since I have given you songs a whole year longB
Stoop of your grace and take this one song moreC
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It was upon a golden first June dayD
I chanced to take the quiet meadow wayD
The flowers and grasses met across my feetE
Red sorrel daisies and pale meadow sweetE
With buttercup that set the field ablazeF
The fields have no such flowers now a daysF
The hedges all along were pearly whiteG
And there I met with Chloris all aloneH
I drew her face to lean against my ownH
The branch of May that hid her maiden eyesI
Was scented like the rose of ParadiseJ
The May bough fell I knew what youth was worthK
And sunshine and the pleasant green gowned earthK
When first love rhymed to summer and delightG
Yet since my ship must sail away that dayD
Despair new born met new born joy half wayD
And I 'mid rapture and tears found voice to sayD
'Farewell my Love to leave you is to die-
I never shall forget you dear Good bye '-
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At parting from Clarinda life was grayD
With the cold haze of mutual wearinessL
The treasure our souls were bartered to possessM
We saw as ashes in the cold new dayD
And only longed for leave to steal awayD
And wash remembrance from our tired eyesI
To cleanse our lips of kisses and of liesI
And to forget the barren fairy goldN
For which we had journeyed such a weary roadO
Had borne so hard a chain so great a loadO
Yet none the less was the old story toldN
The old refrain re iterate none the lessM
'My life's one love ' we said with sigh for sigh-
'I never can forget you dear Good bye '-
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You were so innocent so sure so shy-
Life was a chart well marked for you you knewP
With rocks and quicksands plainly set in viewP
And fitly beaconed by a heavenly starQ
The port you sought marked unmistakeablyR
Attainable and not so very farQ
So of your charity you chose to try-
To take a pirate bark to haven with youP
Ah child I had learned to steer on other seasS
Through other shoals by other stars than theseS
My chart had other ports you knew not ofT
And so one day my black sails took the breezeS
And ere you knew it I was leagues awayD
Yet not so far but you could hear me cry-
Across the waters of your sheltered bayD
'Farewell my child Farewell my only loveT
I never can forget you dear Good bye '-
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When I had courted Chloe half a yearU
She bade me go she could not hold me dearU
We parted in the orchard very lateV
The dew lay on the white sweet clover flowersW
The moon shone through the pear tree by the gateV
And on the grass the blossoms fell in showersW
'Pray Heaven ' I cried 'to bless you none the lessM
That you have cursed my life eternally '-
She laughed my pretty china shepherdessM
Kissed her white hand towards the white full moonX
'Up there ' she said 'the folk who say farewellR
Never intone it to a funeral bellR
But sing it to the sweet old fashioned tuneX
Go there and learn ' 'I have learned that tune ' quoth I-
''I never can forget you dear Good bye ''-
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In that far land where myrtles dream of loveT
Where soft winds whisper through the orange groveT
And 'twixt the sapphire of the seas and skiesM
The sunshine of perpetual summer liesM
I brought white flowers to lie where Clemence layD
The shutters closed strove with the radiant dayD
And in her villa all was still and chillR
Flowers die they say but these flowers never willR
Whenever I see a rose I smell them stillR
I laid them by her on the strait white bedY
There were no kisses given no tears were shedY
And never a whisper of farewell was saidY
Yet when they had laid her underneath the clayD
And paid their prayers and tears and gone their wayD
My heart stirred and I found the old word to sayD
This time this one time and this last time trueP
'White lady my white flowers touch you where you lie-
I never shall forget you Dear good bye '-
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EnvoyT
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Queen of my life and of the songs I singZ
Whose love sets life to such a royal tuneX
This song of parting to your hands I bringZ
As I bring honour and faith and everythingZ
Because I know our parting shall be soonX
Since violets hardly live one happy moonX
And love full fledged is ready to take wingZ
But when he flies part we the silent wayD
And if you ever loved me do not sayD
'Farewell my only love I love you stillR
I never will forget you ' For you willR

Edith Nesbit



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