The Parting Of Ways Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHFH AIAI JKJK LMLM| The skies from black to pearly grey | A |
| Had veered without a star or sun | B |
| Only a burning opal ray | A |
| Fell on your brow when all was done | B |
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| Aye after victory the crown | C |
| Yet through the fight no word of cheer | D |
| And what would win and what go down | C |
| No word could help no light make clear | D |
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| A thousand ages onward led | E |
| Their joys and sorrows to that hour | F |
| No wisdom weighed no word was said | E |
| For only what we were had power | F |
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| There was no tender leaning there | G |
| Of brow to brow in loving mood | H |
| For we were rapt apart and were | F |
| In elemental solitude | H |
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| We knew not in redeeming day | A |
| Whether our spirits would be found | I |
| Floating along the starry way | A |
| Or in the earthly vapours drowned | I |
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| Brought by the sunrise coloured flame | J |
| To earth uncertain yet the while | K |
| I looked at you there slowly came | J |
| Noble and sisterly your smile | K |
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| We bade adieu to love the old | L |
| We heard another lover then | M |
| Whose forms are myriad and untold | L |
| Sigh to us from the hearts of men | M |
George William Russell
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