A Parting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAB CCDCD EEFEF EEGEG HHIHI JJHJH EEKEL| Has the last farewell been spoken | A |
| Have I ta'en the parting token | A |
| From thy lips so sweet | B |
| Has their last soft word been spoken | A |
| Till again we meet | B |
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| Why is not thy hand extended | C |
| Is my maiden queen offended | C |
| Or does she forget | D |
| No my queen is not offended | C |
| She is kindly yet | D |
| - | |
| For her eye is softly beaming | E |
| And with tenderness is teeming | E |
| Gentle as the dove's | F |
| With a holy light is beaming | E |
| Dare I call it love's | F |
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| But the time is fast advancing | E |
| From the heaven of its glancing | E |
| I must rend my heart | G |
| Treacherous Time is fast advancing | E |
| And I must depart | G |
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| Ah the pain the parting brings me | H |
| As a serpent's fang it stings me | H |
| Leaves me almost dead | I |
| Ah the faintness that it brings me | H |
| With the future fled | I |
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| 'Tis a darkened night of sorrow | J |
| Waiting for the light of morrow | J |
| Thus it seems to me | H |
| 'Tis a night of pain and sorrow | J |
| While I want for thee | H |
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| Two long weeks of weary waiting | E |
| All my happiness belating | E |
| When will they be o'er | K |
| Two long weeks of woful waiting | E |
| E'er I see thee more | L |
W. M. Mackeracher
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