A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDCD EE FGHG IJIJ KLKL JJOft have I mused but now at length I find | A |
Why those that die men say they do depart | B |
Depart a word so gentle to my mind | A |
Weakly did seem to paint Death's ugly dart | B |
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But now the stars with their strange course do bind | A |
Me one to leave with whom I leave my heart | B |
I hear a cry of spirits faint and blind | A |
That parting thus my chiefest part I part | B |
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Part of my life the loathed part to me | C |
Lives to impart my weary clay some breath | D |
But that good part wherein all comforts be | C |
Now dead doth show departure is a death | D |
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Yea worse than death death parts both woe and joy | E |
From joy I part still living in annoy | E |
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Finding those beams which I must ever love | F |
To mar my mind and with my hurt to please | G |
I deemed it best some absence for to prove | H |
If farther place might further me to ease | G |
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My eyes thence drawn where lived all their light | I |
Blinded forthwith in dark despair did lie | J |
Like to the mole with want of guiding sight | I |
Deep plunged in earth deprived of the sky | J |
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In absence blind and wearied with that woe | K |
To greater woes by presence I return | L |
Even as the fly which to the flame doth go | K |
Pleased with the light that his small corse doth burn | L |
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Fair choice I have either to live or die | J |
A blinded mole or else a burned fly | J |
Sir Philip Sidney
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