Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDBEEBEB FFGGHBIJBKBLJHL GBMBMGBGBGBGBGGGBB NOPOQBBBNBBB HRRIISSRLKLHKBBTBBTB B QUVKVVVBB BHHBHBBB WXAAXYZA2PQHHBHBHHHB BHHBHBBBCan I see thee stand | A |
On the looming land | A |
Dost thou wave with thy white hand | A |
Farewell farewell | B |
I could think that thou art near | C |
Thy sweet voice is in mine ear | D |
Farewell farewell | B |
While I listen all things seem | E |
Singing in a singing dream | E |
Farewell farewell | B |
Echoing in an echoing dream | E |
Farewell farewell | B |
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Yon boat upon the sea | F |
It floats 'twixt thee and me | F |
I see the boatman listless lie | G |
He cannot hear the cry | G |
That in mine ears doth ring | H |
Farewell farewell | B |
Doth it pass him o'er and o'er | I |
Heard upon the shore behind | J |
Farewell farewell | B |
Heard upon the ship before | K |
Farewell farewell | B |
Like an arrow that can dart | L |
Viewless thro' the viewless wind | J |
Plain on the quivering string | H |
And plain in the victim's heart | L |
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Are there voices in the sky | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
Am I mocked by the bright air | M |
Farewell farewell | B |
The empty air that everywhere | M |
Silvers back the sung reply | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
While to and fro the tremulous accents fly | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
Now shown now shy | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
Now song now sigh | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
Toy with the grasping heart that deems them nigh | G |
Come like blown bells in sudden wind and high | G |
Or far on furthest verge in lingering echoes die | G |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
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Oh Love what strange dumb Fate | N |
Hath broken into voice to see us hope | O |
Surely we part to meet again | P |
Like one struck blind I grope | O |
In vain in vain | Q |
I cannot hold a single sense to tell | B |
The meaning of this melancholy bell | B |
Farewell farewell | B |
I touch them with my thought and small and great | N |
They join the swaying swell | B |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
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Aye when I felt thee falling | H |
On this heaving breast | R |
Aye when I felt thee prest | R |
Nearer nearer nearer | I |
Dearer dearer dearer | I |
Aye while I saw thy face | S |
In that long last embrace | S |
The first the last the best | R |
Aye while I held thee heart to heart | L |
My soul had pushed off from the shore | K |
And we were far apart | L |
I heard her calling calling | H |
From the sea of nevermore | K |
Farewell farewell | B |
Fainter fainter like a bell | B |
Rung from some receding ship | T |
Farewell farewell | B |
The far and further knell | B |
Did hardly reach my lip | T |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
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Away you omens vain | Q |
Away away | U |
What will you not be driven | V |
My heart is trembling to your augury | K |
Hence Like a flight of seabirds at a gun | V |
A thousand ways they scatter back to Heaven | V |
Wheel lessening out of sight and swoop again as one | V |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
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Oh Love what fatal spell | B |
Is winding winding round me to this singing | H |
What hands unseen are flinging | H |
The tightening mesh that I can feel too well | B |
What viewless wings are winging | H |
The siren music of this passing bell | B |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
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Arouse my heart arouse | W |
This is the sea I strike these wooden walls | X |
The sailors come and go at my command | A |
I lift this cable with my hand | A |
I loose it and it falls | X |
Arouse she is not lost | Y |
Thou art not plighted to a moonlight ghost | Z |
But to a living spouse | A2 |
Arouse we only part to meet again | P |
Oh thou moody main | Q |
Are thy mermaid cells a ringing | H |
Are thy mermaid sisters singing | H |
The saddest shell of every cell | B |
Ringing still and ringing | H |
Farewell farewell | B |
To the sinking sighing singing | H |
To the floating flying singing | H |
To the deepening dying singing | H |
In the swell | B |
Farewell farewell | B |
And the failing wailing ringing | H |
The reaming dreaming ringing | H |
Of fainter shell in deeper cell | B |
To the sunken sunken singing | H |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell | B |
Farewell farewell farewell | B |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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