Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHFHIEAE JKFKLEFE| Lift up your brown eyes darling | A |
| Not timidly and shy | B |
| As in the fair lost past not thus | C |
| I'd have you meet my eye | B |
| But grave and calm and earnest | D |
| Thus bravely should we part | E |
| Not sorrowfully not lightly | F |
| And so farewell dear heart | E |
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| Yes fare thee well farewell | G |
| Whate'er shall me betide | H |
| May gentlest angels comfort thee | F |
| And peace with thee abide | H |
| Our love was but a stormy love | I |
| 'Tis your will we should part | E |
| So smile upon me once darling | A |
| And then farewell dear heart | E |
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| But lay your hand once on my brow | J |
| Set like a saintly crown | K |
| It will shield me it will help me | F |
| To hurl temptations down | K |
| God give thee better love than mine | L |
| Nay dear no tears must start | E |
| See I am quiet thou must be | F |
| And now farewell dear heart | E |
Marietta Holley
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