Fare Thee Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF AGAG DGDG DHDH IJIJ DKDK GLGL AG G DMDM CDCD MGMG NONO CPCP MMMM| Fare thee well and if for ever | A |
| Still for ever fare thee well | B |
| Even though unforgiving never | A |
| 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel | C |
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| Would that breast were bared before thee | D |
| Where thy head so oft hath lain | E |
| While that placid sleep came o'er thee | D |
| Which thou ne'er canst know again | F |
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| Would that breast by thee glanced over | A |
| Every inmost thought could show | G |
| Then thou wouldst at last discover | A |
| 'Twas not well to spurn it so | G |
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| Though the world for this commend thee | D |
| Though it smile upon the blow | G |
| Even its praises must offend thee | D |
| Founded on another's woe | G |
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| Though my many faults defaced me | D |
| Could no other arm be found | H |
| Than the one which once embraced me | D |
| To inflict a cureless wound | H |
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| Yet oh yet thyself deceive not | I |
| Love may sink by slow decay | J |
| But by sudden wrench believe not | I |
| Hearts can thus be torn away | J |
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| Still thine own its life retaineth | D |
| Still must mine though bleeding beat | K |
| And the undying thought which paineth | D |
| Is that we no more may meet | K |
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| These are words of deeper sorrow | G |
| Than the wail above the dead | L |
| Both shall live but every morrow | G |
| Wake us from a widow'd bed | L |
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| And when thou wouldst solace gather | A |
| When our child's first accents flow | G |
| Wilt thou teach her to say 'Father ' | - |
| Though his care she must forego | G |
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| When her little hands shall press thee | D |
| When her lip to thine is press'd | M |
| Think of him whose prayer shall bless thee | D |
| Think of him thy love had bless'd | M |
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| Should her lineaments resemble | C |
| Those thou never more may'st see | D |
| Then thy heart will softly tremble | C |
| With a pulse yet true to me | D |
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| All my faults perchance thou knowest | M |
| All my madness none can know | G |
| All my hopes where'er thou goest | M |
| Wither yet with thee they go | G |
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| Every feeling hath been shaken | N |
| Pride which not a world could bow | O |
| Bows to thee by thee forsaken | N |
| Even my soul forsakes me now | O |
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| But 'tis done all words are idle | C |
| Words from me are vainer still | P |
| But the thoughts we cannot bridle | C |
| Force their way without the will | P |
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| Fare thee well thus disunited | M |
| Torn from every nearer tie | M |
| Sear 'd in heart and lone and blighted | M |
| More than this I scarce can die | M |
George Gordon Byron
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