Good-bye--god Bless You! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFDFDGDD BDBDBHBHBCBCIGID BJBJBKBKLMNMOKOKI 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 quot Au revoir quot quot Adieu ma ch re quot | D |
For that's what French was made for | F |
But when a crony takes your hand | D |
At parting to address you | G |
He drops all foreign lingo and | D |
He says quot Good by God bless you quot | D |
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This seems to me a sacred phrase | B |
With reverence impassioned | D |
A thing come down from righteous days | B |
Quaintly but nobly fashioned | D |
It well becomes an honest face | B |
A voice that's round and cheerful | H |
It stays the sturdy in his place | B |
And soothes the weak and fearful | H |
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 | I |
It lingers to caress you | G |
I'm sure no human heart goes wrong | I |
That's told quot Good by God bless you quot | D |
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I love the words perhaps because | B |
When I was leaving Mother | J |
Standing at last in solemn pause | B |
We looked at one another | J |
And I I saw in Mother's eyes | B |
The love she could not tell me | K |
A love eternal as the skies | B |
Whatever fate befell me | K |
She put her arms about my neck | L |
And soothed the pain of leaving | M |
And though her heart was like to break | N |
She spoke no word of grieving | M |
She let no tear bedim her eye | O |
For fear that might distress me | K |
But kissing me she said good by | O |
And asked our God to bless me | K |
Eugene Field
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