A Farewel To America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AEFEF AGCGC GHIHJ GGFGF GDKDK GLCLC GMNMN KKFKF KOPGP KQKQK KPCPC KFKFK| I | A |
| Adieu New England's smiling meads | B |
| Adieu the flow'ry plain | C |
| I leave thine op'ning charms O spring | D |
| And tempt the roaring main | C |
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| II | A |
| In vain for me the flow'rets rise | E |
| And boast their gaudy pride | F |
| While here beneath the northern skies | E |
| I mourn for health deny'd | F |
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| III | A |
| Celestial maid of rosy hue | G |
| O let me feel thy reign | C |
| I languish till thy face I view | G |
| Thy vanish'd joys regain | C |
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| IV | G |
| Susanna mourns nor can I bear | H |
| To see the crystal show'r | I |
| Or mark the tender falling tear | H |
| At sad departure's hour | J |
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| V | G |
| Not unregarding can I see | G |
| Her soul with grief opprest | F |
| But let no sighs no groans for me | G |
| Steal from her pensive breast | F |
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| VI | G |
| In vain the feather'd warblers sing | D |
| In vain the garden blooms | K |
| And on the bosom of the spring | D |
| Breathes out her sweet perfumes | K |
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| VII | G |
| While for Britannia's distant shore | L |
| We sweep the liquid plain | C |
| And with astonish'd eyes explore | L |
| The wide extended main | C |
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| VIII | G |
| Lo Health appears celestial dame | M |
| Complacent and serene | N |
| With Hebe's mantle o'er her Frame | M |
| With soul delighting mein | N |
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| IX | K |
| To mark the vale where London lies | K |
| With misty vapours crown'd | F |
| Which cloud Aurora's thousand dyes | K |
| And veil her charms around | F |
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| X | K |
| Why Phoebus moves thy car so slow | O |
| So slow thy rising ray | P |
| Give us the famous town to view | G |
| Thou glorious king of day | P |
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| XI | K |
| For thee Britannia I resign | Q |
| New England's smiling fields | K |
| To view again her charms divine | Q |
| What joy the prospect yields | K |
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| XII | K |
| But thou Temptation hence away | P |
| With all thy fatal train | C |
| Nor once seduce my soul away | P |
| By thine enchanting strain | C |
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| XIII | K |
| Thrice happy they whose heav'nly shield | F |
| Secures their souls from harms | K |
| And fell Temptation on the field | F |
| Of all its pow'r disarms | K |
Phillis Wheatley
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