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 findA
Why those that die men say they do departB
Depart a word so gentle to my mindA
Weakly did seem to paint Death's ugly dartB
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But now the stars with their strange course do bindA
Me one to leave with whom I leave my heartB
I hear a cry of spirits faint and blindA
That parting thus my chiefest part I partB
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Part of my life the loathed part to meC
Lives to impart my weary clay some breathD
But that good part wherein all comforts beC
Now dead doth show departure is a deathD
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Yea worse than death death parts both woe and joyE
From joy I part still living in annoyE
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Finding those beams which I must ever loveF
To mar my mind and with my hurt to pleaseG
I deemed it best some absence for to proveH
If farther place might further me to easeG
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My eyes thence drawn where lived all their lightI
Blinded forthwith in dark despair did lieJ
Like to the mole with want of guiding sightI
Deep plunged in earth deprived of the skyJ
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In absence blind and wearied with that woeK
To greater woes by presence I returnL
Even as the fly which to the flame doth goK
Pleased with the light that his small corse doth burnL
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Fair choice I have either to live or dieJ
A blinded mole or else a burned flyJ

Sir Philip Sidney



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