To John Nichol: Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDECDE F DBBDDBBDGHBGHB| FRIEND of the dead and friend of all my days | A |
| Even since they cast off boyhood I salute | B |
| The song saluting friends whose songs are mute | B |
| With full burnt offerings of clear spirited praise | A |
| That since our old young years our several ways | A |
| Have led through fields diverse of flower and fruit | B |
| Yet no cross wind has once relaxed the root | B |
| We set long since beneath the sundawn s rays | A |
| The root of trust whence towered the trusty tree | C |
| Friendship this only and duly might impel | D |
| My song to salutation of your own | E |
| More even than praise of one unseen of me | C |
| And loved the starry spirit of Dobell | D |
| To mine by light and music only known | E |
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| II | F |
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| But more than this what moves me most of all | D |
| To leave not all unworded and unsped | B |
| The whole heart s greeting of my thanks unsaid | B |
| Scarce needs this sign that from my tongue should fall | D |
| His name whom sorrow and reverent love recall | D |
| The sign to friends on earth of that dear head | B |
| Alive which now long since untimely dead | B |
| The wan grey waters covered for a pall | D |
| Their trustless reaches dense with tangling stems | G |
| Took never life more taintless of rebuke | H |
| More pure and perfect more serene and kind | B |
| Than when those clear eyes closed beneath the Thames | G |
| And made the now more hallowed name of Luke | H |
| Memorial to us of morning left behind | B |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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