With Eternity Standing By Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADDAEA FGGGFHHFHF IJJJKLLIMK ABCCANNANA| How shall I bid you good bye | A |
| Dear without tears | B |
| Only once in the years | C |
| The idle vanishing years | C |
| We met with Eternity standing by | A |
| And loved a little forgotten space | D |
| I for the sake of your beautiful face | D |
| You I hardly know how or why | A |
| Or whether you loved me indeed alas | E |
| With Eternity standing by | A |
| - | |
| We played our comedy parts | F |
| Scene after scene | G |
| You were to be my queen | G |
| My dear sweet comedy queen | G |
| I your lover and knave of hearts | F |
| Who kissed your hand in the make believe | H |
| And looked for the bee in your royal sleeve | H |
| And stopped because of the pain that smarts | F |
| The pangs that soften the sighs that grieve | H |
| And the rest of the tragic parts | F |
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| We did not know that we loved | I |
| Not at the first of it | J |
| That ah that was the worst of it | J |
| The aching sorrowful worst of it | J |
| Not till I saw that your soul was moved | K |
| At the sound of my voice as in tears I read | L |
| Of Guinevere and the days long dead | L |
| And the knights and ladies who lived and loved | I |
| And went to their graves and were harvested | M |
| Then ah then it was proved | K |
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| So I dare not bid you good bye | A |
| Dear without tears | B |
| Things there are in the years | C |
| The coming ominous years | C |
| All too sad for us not to cry | A |
| Other joys shall forgotten be | N |
| But not the pilgrimage made with me | N |
| The Severn's flood and the angry sky | A |
| And the love we talked of which could not be | N |
| With Eternity standing by | A |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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