At Parting Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDEEFF GGHIIGJJ KKLLMMNN AOOPQRRGGJJSST UUAND 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ' | - |
Then you will answer and I please God hear | U |
'I had another garden once my dear' | U |
Edith Nesbit
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