The Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFGGHIJJKKAACFLL MMDD| Splendidis longum valedico nugis | A |
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| Farewell fond Love under whose childish whip | B |
| I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship | B |
| Thou that hast made me thy scorn'd property | C |
| To dote on Rocks but yielding Loves to fly | D |
| Go bane of my dear quiet and content | E |
| Now practise on some other Patient | F |
| Farewell false Hope that fann'd my warm desire | G |
| Till it had rais'd a wild unruly fire | G |
| Which nor sighs cool nor tears extinguish can | H |
| Although my eyes out flow'd the Ocean | I |
| Forth of my thoughts for ever Thing of Air | J |
| Begun in errour finish't in despair | J |
| Farewell vain World upon whose restless stage | K |
| Twixt Love and Hope I have foold out my age | K |
| Henceforth ere sue to thee for my redress | A |
| Ile wooe the wind or court the wilderness | A |
| And buried from the dayes discovery | C |
| Study a slow yet certain way to dy | F |
| My woful Monument shall be a Cell | L |
| The murmur of the purling brook my knell | L |
| My lasting Epitaph the Rock shall grone | M |
| Thus when sad Lovers ask the weeping stone | M |
| What wretched thing does in that Center lie | D |
| The hollow Eccho will reply 'twas I | D |
Henry King
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