Love’s Farewell Breakup poem (end of a relationship)
Idea that she left him for another
1. Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part,—
Suggests that the person he is speaking to
2. Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
tried to respond, but is ignored
3. And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
Not being honest and putting up a
4. That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
front that he does not care
5. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, “Leaving you has no effect on me”
6. And when we meet at any time again,
7. Be it not seen in either of our brows
8. That we one jot of former love retain. No old love between us
9. Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath, Personifying love
10. When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, Dying Hyperbole &
11. When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, Belief that it would last personification
12. And innocence is closing up his eyes,
Change in tone
13. —Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over,
14. From death to life thou might'st him yet recover! Rhyming couplet
She could come back and revive
their relationship
Shakespearean Sonnet
14 lines with 10 syllables in each line
Iambic pentameter
3 quatrains (1 – 4, 5 – 8, 9 – 12)
1 rhyming couplet (13 & 14)
Rhyming pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
Idea that she left him for another
1. Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part,—
Suggests that the person he is speaking to
2. Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
tried to respond, but is ignored
3. And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
Not being honest and putting up a
4. That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
front that he does not care
5. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, “Leaving you has no effect on me”
6. And when we meet at any time again,
7. Be it not seen in either of our brows
8. That we one jot of former love retain. No old love between us
9. Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath, Personifying love
10. When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, Dying Hyperbole &
11. When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, Belief that it would last personification
12. And innocence is closing up his eyes,
Change in tone
13. —Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over,
14. From death to life thou might'st him yet recover! Rhyming couplet
She could come back and revive
their relationship
Shakespearean Sonnet
14 lines with 10 syllables in each line
Iambic pentameter
3 quatrains (1 – 4, 5 – 8, 9 – 12)
1 rhyming couplet (13 & 14)
Rhyming pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
