Auf Wiedersehen. - In Memory Of J.t.f Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG HCCHII JKKJLL MNNMCDUntil we meet again That is the meaning | A |
Of the familiar words that men repeat | B |
At parting in the street | B |
Ah yes till then but when death intervening | A |
Rends us asunder with what ceaseless pain | C |
We wait for the Again | D |
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The friends who leave us do not feel the sorrow | E |
Of parting as we feel it who must stay | F |
Lamenting day by day | F |
And knowing when we wake upon the morrow | E |
We shall not find in its accustomed place | G |
The one beloved face | G |
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It were a double grief if the departed | H |
Being released from earth should still retain | C |
A sense of earthly pain | C |
It were a double grief if the true hearted | H |
Who loved us here should on the farther shore | I |
Remember us no more | I |
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Believing in the midst of our afflictions | J |
That death is a beginning not an end | K |
We cry to them and send | K |
Farewells that better might be called predictions | J |
Being fore shadowings of the future thrown | L |
Into the vast Unknown | L |
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Faith overleaps the confines of our reason | M |
And if by faith as in old times was said | N |
Women received their dead | N |
Raised up to life then only for a season | M |
Our partings are nor shall we wait in vain | C |
Until we meet again | D |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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