Fare Thee Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEF GHGHIH JKJKIK DLMLIL BIBIBI NONOPO QIRISI BTJUVT| Clare's note Scraps from my father and mother completed | A |
| - | |
| Here's a sad good bye for thee my love | B |
| To friends and foes a smile | C |
| I leave but one regret behind | D |
| That's left with thee the while | C |
| But hopes that fortune is our friend | E |
| Already pays the toil | F |
| - | |
| Force bids me go your friends to please | G |
| Would they were not so high | H |
| But be my lot on land or seas | G |
| It matters not where by | H |
| For I shall keep a thought for thee | I |
| In my heart's core to lie | H |
| - | |
| Winter shall lose its frost and snow | J |
| The spring its blossomed thorn | K |
| The summer all its bloom forego | J |
| The autumn hound and horn | K |
| Ere I will lose that thought of thee | I |
| Or ever prove forsworn | K |
| - | |
| The dove shall change a hawk in kind | D |
| The cuckoo change its tune | L |
| The nightingale at Christmas sing | M |
| The fieldfare come in June | L |
| Ere I do change my love for thee | I |
| These things shall change as soon | L |
| - | |
| So keep your heart at ease my love | B |
| Nor waste a joy for me | I |
| I'll ne'er prove false to thee my love | B |
| Till fish drown in the sea | I |
| And birds forget to fly my love | B |
| And then I'll think of thee | I |
| - | |
| The red cock's wing may turn to grey | N |
| The crow's to silver white | O |
| The night itself may be for day | N |
| And sunshine wake at night | O |
| Till then and then I'll prove more true | P |
| Than Nature life and light | O |
| - | |
| Though you may break your fondest vow | Q |
| And take your heart from me | I |
| And though my heart should break to hear | R |
| What I may never see | I |
| Yet never can'st thou break the link | S |
| That binds my love to thee | I |
| - | |
| So fare thee well my own true love | B |
| No vow from thee I crave | T |
| But thee I never will forego | J |
| Till no spark of life I have | U |
| Nor will I ever thee forget | V |
| Till we both lie in the grave | T |
John Clare
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