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