Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FBFBBGBG HIHJKLKL MNMOGPGQ RSRSTUTU VGVGWXWX| 'Farewell What a subject How sweet | A |
| It looks to the careless observer | B |
| So simple so easy to treat | A |
| With tenderness mark you and fervour | B |
| Farewell It's a poem the song | C |
| Of nightingales crying and calling ' | D |
| O Reader you're utterly wrong | C |
| It's not It's appalling | E |
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| And yet when she asked me to send | F |
| Some trifle of verse to remind her | B |
| Of days that had come to an end | F |
| And one she was leaving behind her | B |
| It looked as we stood on the shore | B |
| A theme so entirely delightsome | G |
| That I like a lunatic swore | B |
| Quite calmly to write some | G |
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| I've toiled with unwavering pluck | H |
| I've struggled if ever a man did | I |
| Infringed every postulate stuck | H |
| At nothing nay once to be candid | J |
| I shifted the cadence designed | K |
| A fresh but unauthorised fare well | L |
| 'Twas plausible too but I find | K |
| The thing doesn't wear well | L |
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| I know that it shouldn't be hard | M |
| That dozens who claim to be poets | N |
| Could scribble off stuff by the yard | M |
| And fare very well and I know it's | O |
| A theme that the Masters of Rhyme | G |
| Have written some excellent verse on | P |
| Which proves as I take it that I'm | G |
| Not that sort of person | Q |
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| But that we can leave It remains | R |
| To state that my present appearance | S |
| Is something too awful my brains | R |
| Are tending to wild incoherence | S |
| My mental condition's absurd | T |
| My thoughts are at sixes and sevens | U |
| Inextrica lord what a word | T |
| Inextri good heavens | U |
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| My dear you can do what you like | V |
| Forgive or despise or abuse me | G |
| But frankly I'm going on strike | V |
| And really you'll have to excuse me | G |
| Indeed it's my only resource | W |
| For sure as I stuck to my promise I'd | X |
| Be booked in a week for a course | W |
| Of sui cum homicide | X |
John Kendall (dum-dum)
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