Going Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH CBEBEIAI JKGKEBL JEMEANE JBA BMBM| Walking to day on the Common | A |
| I heard a stranger say | B |
| To a friend who was standing near him | C |
| 'Do you know I am going away ' | D |
| I had never seen their faces | E |
| May never see them again | F |
| Yet the words the stranger uttered | G |
| Stirred me with nameless pain | H |
| - | |
| For I knew some heart would miss him | C |
| Would ache at his going away | B |
| And the earth would seem all cheerless | E |
| For many and many a day | B |
| No matter how light my spirits | E |
| No matter how glad my heart | I |
| If I hear those two words spoken | A |
| The teardrops always start | I |
| - | |
| They are so sad and solemn | J |
| So full of a lonely sound | K |
| Like dead leaves rustling downward | G |
| And dropping upon the ground | K |
| Oh I pity the naked branches | E |
| When the skies are dull and gray | B |
| And the last leaf whispers softly | L |
| 'Good bye I am going away ' | - |
| - | |
| In the dreary dripping autumn | J |
| The wings of the flying birds | E |
| As they soar away to the south land | M |
| Seem always to say those words | E |
| Wherever they may be spoken | A |
| They fall with a sob and a sigh | N |
| And heartaches follow the sentence | E |
| 'I am going away Good bye ' | - |
| - | |
| O God in Thy blessed kingdom | J |
| No lips shall ever say | B |
| No ears shall ever harken | A |
| To the words 'I am going away ' | - |
| For no soul ever wearies | B |
| Of the dear bright angel land | M |
| And no saint ever wanders | B |
| From the sunny golden land | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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