Words For Departure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEBFGE HIJK LBM NB OKP QE RST GUVB WE| Nothing was remembered nothing forgotten | A |
| When we awoke wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements | B |
| The window sills were wet from rain in the night | C |
| Birds scattered and settled over chimneypots | B |
| As among grotesque trees | B |
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| Nothing was accepted nothing looked beyond | D |
| Slight voiced bells separated hour from hour | E |
| The afternoon sifted coolness | B |
| And people drew together in streets becoming deserted | F |
| There was a moon and light in a shop front | G |
| And dusk falling like precipitous water | E |
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| Hand clasped hand | H |
| Forehead still bowed to forehead | I |
| Nothing was lost nothing possessed | J |
| There was no gift nor denial | K |
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| I have remembered you | L |
| You were not the town visited once | B |
| Nor the road falling behind running feet | M |
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| You were as awkward as flesh | N |
| And lighter than frost or ashes | B |
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| You were the rind | O |
| And the white juiced apple | K |
| The song and the words waiting for music | P |
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| You have learned the beginning | Q |
| Go from mine to the other | E |
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| Be together eat dance despair | R |
| Sleep be threatened endure | S |
| You will know the way of that | T |
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| But at the end be insolent | G |
| Be absurd strike the thing short off | U |
| Be mad only do not let talk | V |
| Wear the bloom from silence | B |
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| And go away without fire or lantern | W |
| Let there be some uncertainty about your departure | E |
Louise Bogan
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