The Lost Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFD DFFD GHGH II| i The people take the thing of course | A |
| They marvel not to see | B |
| This strange unnatural divorce | A |
| Betwixt delight and me i | C |
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| I know the face of sorrow and I know | D |
| Her voice with all its varied cadences | E |
| Which way she turns and treads how at her ease | F |
| Things fit her dreary largess to bestow | D |
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| Where sorrow long abides some be that grow | D |
| To hold her dear but I am not of these | F |
| Joy is my friend not sorrow by strange seas | F |
| In some far land we wandered long ago | D |
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| O faith long tried that knows no faltering | G |
| O vanished treasure of her hands and face | H |
| Beloved to whose memory I cling | G |
| Unmoved within my heart she holds her place | H |
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| And never shall I hail that other friend | I |
| Who yet shall dog my footsteps to the end | I |
Amy Levy
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