A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFH IJKJ AAAA LJMJ NBNB AOAO PAPA QAQA AAAA AHAH ARAR QAQA SDSEDown the steep west unrolled | A |
I watch the river of the sunset flow | B |
With all its crimson lights and gleaming gold | A |
Into the dusk below | B |
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And even as I gaze | C |
The soft lights fade the pageant gay is o'er | D |
And all is grey and dark like those lost days | C |
The days that are no more | E |
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No more through whispering pines | F |
I shall behold in the else silent even | G |
The first faint star watch set along the lines | F |
Of the white tents of heaven | H |
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Before the earliest buds | I |
Have softly opened heralding the May | J |
With tender light illuming the gray woods | K |
I shall be gone away | J |
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Ah wood walks winding sweet | A |
Through all the valleys sloping to the west | A |
Where glad brooks wander with melodious feet | A |
In musical unrest | A |
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Ye will not miss me here | L |
With all the bright things of the coming May | J |
And the rejoicing of the awakened year | M |
I shall be far away | J |
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Yet in your loneliest nooks | N |
I know where all the greenest mosses grow | B |
And where the violets lift their first sweet looks | N |
Out of the waning snow | B |
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And I have heard unsought | A |
Under the musing shadows of the beech | O |
Wood voices answering my unspoken thought | A |
In half articulate speech | O |
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And oh ye shadowy bands | P |
Rank above rank along yon rocky height | A |
That lift into the heavens your mailed hands | P |
And linked armour bright | A |
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What other eyes will trace | Q |
From this dear window haunted with the past | A |
Strange likeness to some well beloved face | Q |
Among your profiles vast | A |
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What stranger hands will tend | A |
The nameless treasures I must leave behind | A |
My flowers my birds and each inanimate friend | A |
Linked closer than my kind | A |
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These glorious landscapes old | A |
Framed in my cottage windows hill sides dun | H |
With umber shadows lightened to pale gold | A |
By touches of the sun | H |
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Valleys like emeralds set | A |
Lonely and sweet in the dusk hills afar | R |
That half enclose them like a carcanet | A |
That holds a diamond star | R |
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Will any gentler face | Q |
Weary and sad sometimes like mine grow bright | A |
Touched with your simple beauty in my place | Q |
My garden of delight | A |
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I know not yet farewell | S |
Sweet home of mine my parting song is o'er | D |
And stranger forms among your bowers shall dwell | S |
Where I return no more | E |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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