The Outcast's Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDBC EEDFGGDF HHIJKKIJ LMNOPPNO HHHQDDHQ HHGPHHGP IIGJAAGJ MMRLIIRS GGITMMIT| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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