The Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFEFF GFHFF HHHIHI JJKFLF HHMFMF| She passed the thorn trees whose gaunt branches tossed | A |
| Their spider shadows round her and the breeze | B |
| Beneath the ashen moon was full of frost | A |
| And mouthed and mumbled to the sickly trees | B |
| Like some starved hag who sees her children freeze | B |
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| Dry eyed she waited by the sycamore | C |
| Some stars made misty blotches in the sky | D |
| And all the wretched willows on the shore | C |
| Looked faded as a jaundiced cheek or eye | D |
| She felt their pity and could only sigh | D |
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| And then his skiff ground on the river rocks | E |
| Whistling he came into the shadow made | F |
| By that dead tree He kissed her dark brown locks | E |
| And round her form his eager arms were laid | F |
| Passive she stood her secret unbetrayed | F |
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| And then she spoke while still his greeting kiss | G |
| Ached in her hair She did not dare to lift | F |
| Her eyes to his her anguished eyes to his | H |
| While tears smote crystal in her throat One rift | F |
| Of weakness humored might set all adrift | F |
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| Fields over which a path overwhelmed with burrs | H |
| And ragweeds noisy with the grasshoppers | H |
| Leads lost irresolute as paths the cows | H |
| Wear through the woods unto a woodshed then | I |
| With wrecks of windows to a huddled house | H |
| Where men have murdered men | I |
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| A house whose tottering chimney clay and rock | J |
| Is seamed and crannied whose lame door and lock | J |
| Are bullet bored around which there and here | K |
| Are sinister stains One dreads to look around | F |
| The place seems thinking of that time of fear | L |
| And dares not breathe a sound | F |
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| Within is emptiness The sunlight falls | H |
| On faded journals papering the walls | H |
| On advertisement chromos torn with time | M |
| Around a hearth where wasps and spiders build | F |
| The house is dead meseems that night of crime | M |
| It too was shot and killed | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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