I Leave Thee For Awhile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC| I leave thee for awhile my love I leave thee with a sigh | A |
| The fountain spring within my soul is playing in mine eye | A |
| I do not blush to own the tear let let it touch my cheek | B |
| And what my lip has failed to tell that drop perchance may speak | B |
| Mavourneen when again I seek my green isle in the West | C |
| Oh promise thou wilt share my lot and set this heart at rest | C |
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| I leave thee for awhile my love but every hour will be | D |
| Uncheered and lonely till the one that brings me back to thee | D |
| I go to make my riches more but where is man to find | E |
| A vein of gold so rich and pure as that I leave behind | E |
| Mavourneen though my home might be the fairest earth possessed | C |
| Till thou wouldst share and make it warm this heart would know no rest | C |
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| I leave thee for awhile my love my cheek is cold and white | F |
| But ah I see a promise stand within thy glance of light | F |
| When next I seek old Erin's shore thy step will bless it too | G |
| And then the grass will seem more green the sky will have more blue | G |
| Mavourneen first and dearest loved there's sunshine in my breast | C |
| For thou wilt share my future lot and set this heart at rest | C |
Eliza Cook
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