Farewell To The Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD DEDECFCF CGCGHIHJ| Enchantress farewell who so oft hast decoy'd me | A |
| At the close of the evening through woodlands to roam | B |
| Where the forester 'lated with wonder espied me | A |
| Explore the wild scenes he was quitting for home | B |
| Farewell and take with thee thy numbers wild speaking | C |
| The language alternate of rapture and woe | D |
| Oh none but some lover whose heartstrings are breaking | C |
| The pang that I feel at our parting can know | D |
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| Each joy thou couldst double and when there came sorrow | D |
| Or pale disappointment to darken my way | E |
| What voice was like thine that could sing of tomorrow | D |
| Till forgot in the strain was the grief of today | E |
| But when friends drop around us in life's weary waning | C |
| The grief Queen of Numbers thou canst not assuage | F |
| Nor the gradual estrangement of those yet remaining | C |
| The languor of pain and the chillness of age | F |
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| 'Twas thou that once taught me accents bewailing | C |
| To sing how a warrior I lay stretch'd on the plain | G |
| And a maiden hung o'er him with aid unavailing | C |
| And held to his lips the cold goblet in vain | G |
| As vain thy enchantments O Queen of wild Numbers | H |
| To a bard when the reign of his fancy is o'er | I |
| And the quick pulse of feeling in apathy slumbers | H |
| Farewell then Enchantress I'll meet thee no more | J |
Walter Scott (sir)
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