Good-by Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGCC BBHHCC IIJJCC| Again I see that May moon shine | A |
| Dost thou remember soul of mine | A |
| I held your hand in mine you know | B |
| And as I bent to whisper low | B |
| A tender light was in your eye | C |
| Sweetheart good by sweetheart good by | C |
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| There came a time my lips were white | D |
| Beneath the pale and cold moonlight | D |
| And burning words I might not speak | E |
| You read love in my ashen cheek | E |
| As my whole heart breathed in this one cry | C |
| Sweetheart good by sweetheart good by | C |
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| Time's waves that roll so swift and fleet | F |
| Have borne you far from me my sweet | F |
| Have borne you to a sunny bay | G |
| Where brightest sunshine gilds your way | G |
| Do these words ever dim your sky | C |
| Sweetheart good by sweetheart good by | C |
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| I cannot tell but this I know | B |
| They go with me where'er I go | B |
| I hear them in the crowded mart | H |
| At midnight lone they chill my heart | H |
| They dim for me the earth and sky | C |
| Sweetheart good by sweetheart good by | C |
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| And in that hour of mystery | I |
| When loved ones shall bend over me | I |
| Near ones to kiss my lips and weep | J |
| As nearer steals the dreamless sleep | J |
| From all I'll turn with this last sigh | C |
| Sweetheart good by sweetheart good by | C |
Marietta Holley
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