A Parting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDB ABEEFFB ABGBHHB ABIJKKB| When will ye think of me my friends | A |
| When will ye think of me | B |
| When the last red light the farewell of day | C |
| From the rock and the river is passing away | C |
| When the air with a deep'ning hush is fraught | D |
| And the heart grows burden'd with tender thought | D |
| Then let it be | B |
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| When will ye think of me kind friends | A |
| When will ye think of me | B |
| When the rose of the rich midsummer time | E |
| Is fill'd with the hues of its glorious prime | E |
| When ye gather its bloom as in bright hours fled | F |
| From the walks where my footsteps no more may tread | F |
| Then let it be | B |
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| When will ye think of me sweet friends | A |
| When will ye think of me | B |
| When the sudden tears o'erflow your eye | G |
| At the sound of some olden melody | B |
| When ye hear the voice of a mountain stream | H |
| When ye feel the charm of a poet's dream | H |
| Then let it be | B |
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| Thus let my memory be with you friends | A |
| Thus ever think of me | B |
| Kindly and gently but as of one | I |
| For whom 'tis well to be fled and gone | J |
| As of a bird from a chain unbound | K |
| As of a wanderer whose home is found | K |
| So let it be | B |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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