A Dead Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DBC BEBC A FGFF FFF FFFF A FHFH HFI FJFH K FFFF FFF FFFF K LFLF FLF LFLF K FMFM MFM FMFM K DFDF FDF DFDF| I | A |
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| Gone O gentle heart and true | B |
| Friend of hopes foregone | C |
| Hopes and hopeful days with you | B |
| Gone | C |
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| Days of old that shone | D |
| Saw what none shall see anew | B |
| When we gazed thereon | C |
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| Soul as clear as sunlit dew | B |
| Why so soon pass on | E |
| Forth from all we loved and knew | B |
| Gone | C |
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| II | A |
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| Friend of many a season fled | F |
| What may sorrow send | G |
| Toward thee now from lips that said | F |
| 'Friend' | F |
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| Sighs and songs to blend | F |
| Praise with pain uncomforted | F |
| Though the praise ascend | F |
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| Darkness hides no dearer head | F |
| Why should darkness end | F |
| Day so soon O dear and dead | F |
| Friend | F |
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| III | A |
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| Dear in death thou hast thy part | F |
| Yet in life to cheer | H |
| Hearts that held thy gentle heart | F |
| Dear | H |
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| Time and chance may sear | H |
| Hope with grief and death may part | F |
| Hand from hand's clasp here | I |
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| Memory blind with tears that start | F |
| Sees through every tear | J |
| All that made thee as thou art | F |
| Dear | H |
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| IV | K |
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| True and tender single souled | F |
| What should memory do | F |
| Weeping o'er the trust we hold | F |
| True | F |
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| Known and loved of few | F |
| But of these though small their fold | F |
| Loved how well were you | F |
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| Change that makes of new things old | F |
| Leaves one old thing new | F |
| Love which promised truth and told | F |
| True | F |
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| V | K |
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| Kind as heaven while earth's control | L |
| Still had leave to bind | F |
| Thee thy heart was toward man's whole | L |
| Kind | F |
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| Thee no shadows blind | F |
| Now the change of hours that roll | L |
| Leaves thy sleep behind | F |
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| Love that hears thy death bell toll | L |
| Yet may call to mind | F |
| Scarce a soul as thy sweet soul | L |
| Kind | F |
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| VI | K |
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| How should life O friend forget | F |
| Death whose guest art thou | M |
| Faith responds to love's regret | F |
| How | M |
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| Still for us that bow | M |
| Sorrowing still though life be set | F |
| Shines thy bright mild brow | M |
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| Yea though death and thou be met | F |
| Love may find thee now | M |
| Still albeit we know not yet | F |
| How | M |
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| VII | K |
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| Past as music fades that shone | D |
| While its life might last | F |
| As a song bird's shadow flown | D |
| Past | F |
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| Death's reverberate blast | F |
| Now for music's lord has blown | D |
| Whom thy love held fast | F |
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| Dead thy king and void his throne | D |
| Yet for grief at last | F |
| Love makes music of his own | D |
| Past | F |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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