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 unrolledA
I watch the river of the sunset flowB
With all its crimson lights and gleaming goldA
Into the dusk belowB
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And even as I gazeC
The soft lights fade the pageant gay is o'erD
And all is grey and dark like those lost daysC
The days that are no moreE
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No more through whispering pinesF
I shall behold in the else silent evenG
The first faint star watch set along the linesF
Of the white tents of heavenH
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Before the earliest budsI
Have softly opened heralding the MayJ
With tender light illuming the gray woodsK
I shall be gone awayJ
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Ah wood walks winding sweetA
Through all the valleys sloping to the westA
Where glad brooks wander with melodious feetA
In musical unrestA
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Ye will not miss me hereL
With all the bright things of the coming MayJ
And the rejoicing of the awakened yearM
I shall be far awayJ
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Yet in your loneliest nooksN
I know where all the greenest mosses growB
And where the violets lift their first sweet looksN
Out of the waning snowB
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And I have heard unsoughtA
Under the musing shadows of the beechO
Wood voices answering my unspoken thoughtA
In half articulate speechO
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And oh ye shadowy bandsP
Rank above rank along yon rocky heightA
That lift into the heavens your mailed handsP
And linked armour brightA
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What other eyes will traceQ
From this dear window haunted with the pastA
Strange likeness to some well beloved faceQ
Among your profiles vastA
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What stranger hands will tendA
The nameless treasures I must leave behindA
My flowers my birds and each inanimate friendA
Linked closer than my kindA
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These glorious landscapes oldA
Framed in my cottage windows hill sides dunH
With umber shadows lightened to pale goldA
By touches of the sunH
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Valleys like emeralds setA
Lonely and sweet in the dusk hills afarR
That half enclose them like a carcanetA
That holds a diamond starR
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Will any gentler faceQ
Weary and sad sometimes like mine grow brightA
Touched with your simple beauty in my placeQ
My garden of delightA
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I know not yet farewellS
Sweet home of mine my parting song is o'erD
And stranger forms among your bowers shall dwellS
Where I return no moreE

Kate Seymour Maclean



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