The Lover's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFAA GGHH IIAA HHAA| And wilt thou love my soul display | A |
| And all my secret thoughts betray | A |
| I strove but could not hold thee fast | B |
| My heart flies off with thee at last | B |
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| The favorite daughter of the dawn | C |
| On love's mild breeze will soon be gone | C |
| I strove but could not cease to love | D |
| Nor from my heart the weight remove | E |
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| And wilt thou love my soul beguile | F |
| And gull thy fav'rite with a smile | F |
| Nay soft affection answers nay | A |
| And beauty wings my heart away | A |
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| I steal on tiptoe from these bowers | G |
| All spangled with a thousand flowers | G |
| I sigh yet leave them all behind | H |
| To gain the object of my mind | H |
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| And wilt thou love command my soul | I |
| And waft me with a light controul | I |
| Adieu to all the blooms of May | A |
| Farewell I fly with love away | A |
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| I leave my parents here behind | H |
| And all my friends to love resigned | H |
| 'Tis grief to go but death to stay | A |
| Farewell I'm gone with love away | A |
George Moses Horton
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