A Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDCD EE FGHG IJIJ KLKL JJ| Oft 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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