The Departure. An Elegy. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBCCDDEEFFGGHHBB IIBBJJKKLLMMNNOPLLQQ AARRRRRRSSKRSSTTRRBB RR| VVere I to leave no more then a good friend | A |
| Or but to hear the summons to my end | A |
| Which I have long'd for I could then with ease | B |
| Attire my grief in words and so appease | B |
| That passion in my bosom which outgrowes | B |
| The language of strict verse or largest prose | B |
| But here I am quite lost writing to you | C |
| All that I pen or think is forc't and new | C |
| My faculties run cross and prove as weak | D |
| T'indite this melancholly task as speak | D |
| Indeed all words are vaine well might I spare | E |
| This rendring of my tortur'd thoughts in ayre | E |
| Or sighing paper My infectious grief | F |
| Strikes inward and affords me no relief | F |
| But still a deeper wound to lose a sight | G |
| More lov'd then health and dearer then the light | G |
| But all of us were not at the same time | H |
| Brought forth nor are we billited in one clime | H |
| Nature hath pitch't mankind at several rates | B |
| Making our places diverse as our fates | B |
| Unto that universal law I bow | I |
| Though with unwilling knee and do allow | I |
| Her cruell justice which dispos'd us so | B |
| That we must counter to our wishes go | B |
| 'Twas part of mans first curse which order'd well | J |
| We should not alway with our likings dwell | J |
| 'Tis onely the Triumphant Church where we | K |
| Shall in unsever'd Neighbourhood agree | K |
| Go then best soul and where You must appear | L |
| Restore the Day to that dull Hemisphear | L |
| Nere may the hapless Night You leave behind | M |
| Darken the comforts of Your purer mind | M |
| May all the blessings Wishes can invent | N |
| Enrich your dayes and crown them with content | N |
| And though You travel down into the West | O |
| May Your lifes Sun stand fixed in the East | P |
| Far from the weeping set nor may my ear | L |
| Take in that killing whisper You once were | L |
| Thus kiss I your fair hands taking my leave | Q |
| As Prisoners at the Bar their doom receive | Q |
| All joyes go with You let sweet peace attend | A |
| You on the way and wait Your journeys end | A |
| But let Your discontents and sowrer fate | R |
| Remain with me born off in my Retrait | R |
| Might all your crosses in that sheet of lead | R |
| Which folds my heavy heart lie buried | R |
| 'Tis the last service I would do You and the best | R |
| My wishes ever meant or tongue profest | R |
| Once more I take my leave And once for all | S |
| Our parting shews so like a funerall | S |
| It strikes my soul which hath most right to be | K |
| Chief Mourner at this sad solemnitie | R |
| And think not Dearest 'cause this parting knell | S |
| Is rung in verses that at Your farewell | S |
| I onely mourn in Poetry and Ink | T |
| No my Pens melancholy Plommets sink | T |
| So low they dive where th' hid affections sit | R |
| Blotting that Paper where my mirth was writ | R |
| Believ't that sorrow truest is which lies | B |
| Deep in the breast not floating in the eies | B |
| And he with saddest circumstance doth part | R |
| Who seals his farewell with a bleeding heart | R |
Henry King
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