The Parting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFAGHIJ KLMNOPQERSGT UVWXYWZA2B2G C2WD2E2GF2 F2F2PPG2LH2H2 DDI2J2K2L2M2A N2N2GGO2O2F2F2 GGD2D2PPH2H2 P2P2H2Q2WWF2 WGWR2WF2WWYA youth went forth to exile from a home | A |
Such as to early thought gives images | B |
The longest treasur'd and most oft recall'd | C |
And brightest kept of love a mountain home | A |
That with the murmur of its rocking pines | D |
And sounding waters first in childhood's heart | E |
Wakes the deep sense of nature unto joy | F |
And half unconscious prayer a Grecian home | A |
With the transparence of blue skies o'erhung | G |
And through the dimness of its olive shades | H |
Catching the flash of fountains and the gleam | I |
Of shining pillars from the fanes of old | J |
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And this was what he left Yet many leave | K |
Far more the glistening eye that first from theirs | L |
Call'd out the soul's bright smile the gentle hand | M |
Which through the sunshine led forth infant steps | N |
To where the violets lay the tender voice | O |
That earliest taught them what deep melody | P |
Lives in affection's tones He left not these | Q |
Happy the weeper that but weeps to part | E |
With all a mother's love A bitterer grief | R |
Was his To part unlov'd of her unlov'd | S |
That should have breath'd upon his heart like Spring | G |
Fostering its young faint flowers | T |
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Yet had he friends | U |
And they went forth to cheer him on his way | V |
Unto the parting spot and she too went | W |
That mother tearless for her youngest born | X |
The parting spot was reach'd a lone deep glen | Y |
Holy perchance of yore for cave and fount | W |
Were there and sweet voiced echoes and above | Z |
The silence of the blue still upper Heaven | A2 |
Hung round the crags of Pindus where they wore | B2 |
Their crowning snows Upon a reck he sprung | G |
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The unbelov'd one for his home to gaze | C2 |
Through the wild laurels back but then a light | W |
Broke on the stern proud sadness of his eye | D2 |
A sudden quivering light and from his lips | E2 |
A burst of passionate song | G |
'Farewell farewell | F2 |
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'I hear thee O thou rushing stream thou 'rt from my native dell | F2 |
Thou 'rt bearing thence a mournful sound a murmur of farewell | F2 |
And fare thee well flow on my stream flow on thou bright and free | P |
I do but dream that in thy voice one tone laments for me | P |
But I have been a thing unlov'd from childhood's loving years | G2 |
And therefore turns my soul to thee for thou hast known my tears | L |
The mountains and the caves and thou my secret tears have known | H2 |
The woods can tell where he hath wept that ever wept alone | H2 |
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'I see thee once again my home thou 'rt there amidst thy vines | D |
And clear upon thy gleaming roof the light of summer shines | D |
It is a joyous hour when eve comes whispering through thy groves | I2 |
The hour that brings the son from toil the hour the mother loves | J2 |
The hour the mother loves for me belov'd it hath not been | K2 |
Yet ever in its purple smile thou smil'st a blessed scene | L2 |
Whose quiet beauty o'er my soul through distant years will come | M2 |
Yet what but as the dead to thee shall I be then my home | A |
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'Not as the dead no not the dead We speak of them we keep | N2 |
Their names like light that must not fade within our bosoms deep | N2 |
We hallow ev'n the lyre they touch'd we love the lay they sung | G |
We pass with softer step the place they fill'd our band among | G |
But I depart like sound like dew like aught that leaves on earth | O2 |
No trace of sorrow or delight no memory of its birth | O2 |
I go the echo of the rock a thousand songs may swell | F2 |
When mine is a forgotten voice Woods mountains home farewell | F2 |
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'And farewell mother I have borne in lonely silence long | G |
But now the current of my soul grows passionate and strong | G |
And I will speak though but the wind that wanders through the sky | D2 |
And but the dark deep rustling pines and rolling streams reply | D2 |
Yes I will speak within my breast whate'er hath seem'd to be | P |
There lay a hidden fount of love that would have gush'd for thee | P |
Brightly it would have gush'd but thou my mother thou hast thrown | H2 |
Back on the forests and the wilds what should have been thine own | H2 |
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'Then fare thee well I leave thee not in loneliness to pine | P2 |
Since thou hast sons of statelier mien and fairer brow than mine | P2 |
Forgive me that thou couldst not love it may be that a tone | H2 |
Yet from my burning heart may pierce through thine when I am gone | Q2 |
And thou perchance mayst weep for him on whom thou ne'er hast smil'd | W |
And the grave give his birthright back to thy neglected child | W |
Might but my spirit then return and 'midst its kindred dwell | F2 |
And quench its thirst with love's free tears 'tis all a dream farewell ' | - |
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'Farewell ' the echo died with that deep word | W |
Yet died not so the late repentant pang | G |
By the strain quicken'd in the mother's breast | W |
There had pass'd many changes o'er her brow | R2 |
And cheek and eye but into one bright flood | W |
Of tears at last all melted and she fell | F2 |
On the glad bosom of her child and cried | W |
'Return return my son ' the echo caught | W |
A lovelier sound than song and woke again | Y |
Murmuring 'Return my son ' | - |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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