A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFH IJKJ AAAA LJMJ NBNB AOAO PAPA QAQA AAAA AHAH ARAR QAQA SDSE| Down 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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