Farewell To Arcady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEDAA DDFF FFGHA| With sombre mien the Evening gray | A |
| Comes nagging at the heels of Day | A |
| And driven faster and still faster | B |
| Before the dusky mantled Master | B |
| The light fades from her fearful eyes | C |
| She hastens stumbles falls and dies | C |
| - | |
| Beside me Amaryllis weeps | D |
| The swelling tears obscure the deeps | D |
| Of her dark eyes as mistily | E |
| The rushing rain conceals the sea | D |
| Here lay my tuneless reed away | A |
| I have no heart to tempt a lay | A |
| - | |
| I scent the perfume of the rose | D |
| Which by my crystal fountain grows | D |
| In this sad time are roses blowing | F |
| And thou my fountain art thou flowing | F |
| - | |
| While I who watched thy waters spring | F |
| Am all too sad to smile or sing | F |
| Nay give me back my pipe again | G |
| It yet shall breathe this single strain | H |
| Farewell to Arcady | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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