The Outcast's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBC EEDFGGDF HHIJKKIJ LMNOPPNO HHHQDDHQ HHGPHHGP IIGJAAGJ MMRLIIRS GGITMMITThe sun is banished | A |
The daylight vanished | A |
No rosy traces | B |
Are left behind | C |
Here in the meadow | D |
I watch the shadow | D |
Of forms and faces | B |
Upon your blind | C |
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Through swift transitions | E |
In new positions | E |
My eyes still follow | D |
One shape most fair | F |
My heart delaying | G |
Awhile is playing | G |
With pleasures hollow | D |
Which mock despair | F |
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I feel so lonely | H |
I long once only | H |
To pass an hour | I |
With you O sweet | J |
To touch your fingers | K |
Where fragrance lingers | K |
From some rare flower | I |
And kiss your feet | J |
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But not this even | L |
To me is given | M |
Of all sad mortals | N |
Most sad am I | O |
Never to meet you | P |
Never to greet you | P |
Nor pass your portals | N |
Before I die | O |
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All men scorn me | H |
Not one will mourn me | H |
When from their city | H |
I pass away | Q |
Will you to morrow | D |
Recall with sorrow | D |
Him whom with pity | H |
You saw to day | Q |
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Outcast and lonely | H |
One thing only | H |
Beyond misgiving | G |
I hold for true | P |
That had you known me | H |
You would have shown me | H |
A life worth living | G |
A life for you | P |
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Yes five years younger | I |
My manhood's hunger | I |
Had you come filling | G |
With plenty sweet | J |
My life so nourished | A |
Had grown and flourished | A |
Had God been willing | G |
That we should meet | J |
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How vain to fashion | M |
From dreams and passion | M |
The rich existence | R |
Which might have been | L |
Can God's own power | I |
Recall the hour | I |
Or bridge the distance | R |
That lies between | S |
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Before the morning | G |
From pain and scorning | G |
I sail death's river | I |
To sleep or hell | T |
To you is given | M |
The life of heaven | M |
Farewell for ever | I |
Farewell farewell | T |
Robert Fuller Murray
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