When You Go Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKLM NONO| When you go away my friend | A |
| When you say your last good bye | B |
| Then the summer time will end | A |
| And the winter will be nigh | B |
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| Though the green grass decks the heather | C |
| And the birds sing all the day | D |
| There will be no summer weather | C |
| After you have gone away | D |
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| When I look into your eyes | E |
| I shall thrill with deepest pain | F |
| Thinking that beneath the skies | E |
| I may never look again | G |
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| You will feel a moment's sorrow | H |
| I shall feel a lasting grief | I |
| You forgetting on the morrow | H |
| I to mourn with no relief | I |
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| When we say the last sad word | J |
| And you are no longer near | K |
| And the winds and all the birds | L |
| Cannot keep the summer here | M |
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| Life will lose its full completeness | N |
| Lose it not for you but me | O |
| All the beauty and the sweetness | N |
| Each can hold I shall not see | O |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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