Good-by--god Bless You! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFGFHIJI BJBJBKBKBCBCLILI BMBMBNBNOPQPRNRN| I like the Anglo Saxon speech | A |
| With its direct revealings | B |
| It takes a hold and seems to reach | A |
| 'Way down into your feelings | B |
| That some folk deem it rude I know | C |
| And therefore they abuse it | D |
| But I have never found it so | C |
| Before all else I choose it | D |
| I don't object that men should air | E |
| The Gallic they have paid for | F |
| With Au revoir Adieu ma ch re | G |
| For that's what French was made for | F |
| But when a crony takes your hand | H |
| At parting to address you | I |
| He drops all foreign lingo and | J |
| He says Good by God bless you | I |
| - | |
| This seems to me a sacred phrase | B |
| With reverence impassioned | J |
| A thing come down from righteous days | B |
| Quaintly but nobly fashioned | J |
| It well becomes an honest face | B |
| A voice that's round and cheerful | K |
| It stays the sturdy in his place | B |
| And soothes the weak and fearful | K |
| Into the porches of the ears | B |
| It steals with subtle unction | C |
| And in your heart of hearts appears | B |
| To work its gracious function | C |
| And all day long with pleasing song | L |
| It lingers to caress you | I |
| I'm sure no human heart goes wrong | L |
| That's told Good by God bless you | I |
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| I love the words perhaps because | B |
| When I was leaving Mother | M |
| Standing at last in solemn pause | B |
| We looked at one another | M |
| And I I saw in Mother's eyes | B |
| The love she could not tell me | N |
| A love eternal as the skies | B |
| Whatever fate befell me | N |
| She put her arms about my neck | O |
| And soothed the pain of leaving | P |
| And though her heart was like to break | Q |
| She spoke no word of grieving | P |
| She let no tear bedim her eye | R |
| For fear that might distress me | N |
| But kissing me she said good by | R |
| And asked our God to bless me | N |
Eugene Field
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