A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLKL MNON PQPQ RBRB STST IMIO URUR VWVW XLXL LNLN SRSR YIYZ A2B2A2B2 LC2LC2 D2E2TL F2LF2L IG2IG2 LTLD2| My Horse's feet beside the lake | A |
| Where sweet the unbroken moonbeams lay | B |
| Sent echoes through the night to wake | A |
| Each glistening strand each heath fringed bay | B |
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| The poplar avenue was pass'd | C |
| And the roofed bridge that spans the stream | D |
| Up the steep street I hurried fast | C |
| Led by thy taper's starlike beam | D |
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| I came I saw thee rise the blood | E |
| Poured flushing to thy languid cheek | F |
| Locked in each other's arms we stood | G |
| In tears with hearts too full to speak | F |
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| Days flew ah soon I could discern | H |
| A trouble in thine altered air | I |
| Thy hand lay languidly in mine | J |
| Thy cheek was grave thy speech grew rare | I |
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| I blame thee not This heart I know | K |
| To be long lov'd was never fram'd | L |
| For something in its depths doth glow | K |
| Too strange too restless too untam'd | L |
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| And women things that live and move | M |
| Mined by the fever of the soul | N |
| They seek to find in those they love | O |
| Stern strength and promise of control | N |
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| They ask not kindness gentle ways | P |
| These they themselves have tried and known | Q |
| They ask a soul which never sways | P |
| With the blind gusts that shake their own | Q |
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| I too have felt the load I bore | R |
| In a too strong emotion's sway | B |
| I too have wish'd no woman more | R |
| This starting feverish heart away | B |
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| I too have long'd for trenchant force | S |
| And will like a dividing spear | T |
| Have prais'd the keen unscrupulous course | S |
| Which knows no doubt which feels no fear | T |
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| But in the world I learnt what there | I |
| Thou too wilt surely one day prove | M |
| That will that energy though rare | I |
| Are yet far far less rare than love | O |
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| Go then till time and fate impress | U |
| This truth on thee be mine no more | R |
| They will for thou I feel not less | U |
| Than I wast destined to this lore | R |
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| We school our manners act our parts | V |
| But He who sees us through and through | W |
| Knows that the bent of both our hearts | V |
| Was to be gentle tranquil true | W |
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| And though we wear out life alas | X |
| Distracted as a homeless wind | L |
| In beating where we must not pass | X |
| In seeking what we shall not find | L |
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| Yet we shall one day gain life past | L |
| Clear prospect o'er our being's whole | N |
| Shall see ourselves and learn at last | L |
| Our true affinities of soul | N |
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| We shall not then deny a course | S |
| To every thought the mass ignore | R |
| We shall not then call hardness force | S |
| Nor lightness wisdom any more | R |
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| Then in the eternal Father's smile | Y |
| Our soothed encouraged souls will dare | I |
| To seem as free from pride and guile | Y |
| As good as generous as they are | Z |
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| Then we shall know our friends though much | A2 |
| Will have been lost the help in strife | B2 |
| The thousand sweet still joys of such | A2 |
| As hand in hand face earthly life | B2 |
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| Though these be lost there will be yet | L |
| A sympathy august and pure | C2 |
| Ennobled by a vast regret | L |
| And by contrition sealed thrice sure | C2 |
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| And we whose ways were unlike here | D2 |
| May then more neighbouring courses ply | E2 |
| May to each other be brought near | T |
| And greet across infinity | L |
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| How sweet unreached by earthly jars | F2 |
| My sister to maintain with thee | L |
| The hush among the shining stars | F2 |
| The calm upon the moonlit sea | L |
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| How sweet to feel on the boon air | I |
| All our unquiet pulses cease | G2 |
| To feel that nothing can impair | I |
| The gentleness the thirst for peace | G2 |
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| The gentleness too rudely hurl'd | L |
| On this wild earth of hate and fear | T |
| The thirst for peace a raving world | L |
| Would never let us satiate here | D2 |
Matthew Arnold
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