Good-by Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDEEFFGA HHIIJKLL AAMMNNFFGood by proud world I'm going home | A |
Thou'rt not my friend and I'm not thine | B |
Long through thy weary crowds I roam | A |
A river ark on the ocean brine | B |
Long I've been tossed like the driven foam | A |
But now proud world I'm going home | A |
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Good by to Flattery's fawning face | C |
To Grandeur with his wise grimace | D |
To upstart Wealth's averted eye | E |
To supple Office low and high | E |
To crowded halls to court and street | F |
To frozen hearts and hasting feet | F |
To those who go and those who come | G |
Good by proud world I'm going home | A |
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I'm going to my own hearth stone | H |
Bosomed in yon green hills alone | H |
A secret nook in a pleasant land | I |
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned | I |
Where arches green the livelong day | J |
Echo the blackbird's roundelay | K |
And vulgar feet have never trod | L |
A spot that is sacred to thought and God | L |
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Oh when I am safe in my sylvan home | A |
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome | A |
And when I am stretched beneath the pines | M |
Where the evening star so holy shines | M |
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man | N |
At the sophist schools and the learned clan | N |
For what are they all in their high conceit | F |
When man in the bush with God may meet | F |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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