In Remembrance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFDD GHGHDD IJIJDD KLKLDD MNMNDD AOAODD| W L C | A |
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| Sit closer friends around the board | B |
| Death grants us yet a little time | C |
| Now let the cheering cup be poured | B |
| And welcome song and jest and rhyme | C |
| Enjoy the gifts that fortune sends | D |
| Sit closer friends | D |
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| And yet we pause With trembling lip | E |
| We strive the fitting phrase to make | F |
| Remembering our fellowship | E |
| Lamenting Destiny's mistake | F |
| We marvel much when Fate offends | D |
| And claims our friends | D |
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| Companion of our nights of mirth | G |
| Where all were merry who were wise | H |
| Does Death quite understand your worth | G |
| And know the value of his prize | H |
| I doubt me if he comprehends | D |
| He knows no friends | D |
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| And in that realm is there no joy | I |
| Of comrades and the jocund sense | J |
| Can Death so utterly destroy | I |
| For gladness grant no recompense | J |
| And can it be that laughter ends | D |
| With absent friends | D |
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| Oh scholars whom we wisest call | K |
| Who solve great questions at your ease | L |
| We ask the simplest of them all | K |
| And yet you cannot answer these | L |
| And is it thus your knowledge ends | D |
| To comfort friends | D |
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| Dear Omar should You chance to meet | M |
| Our Brother Somewhere in the Gloom | N |
| Pray give to Him a Message sweet | M |
| From Brothers in the Tavern Room | N |
| He will not ask who 'tis that sends | D |
| For We were Friends | D |
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| Again a parting sail we see | A |
| Another boat has left the shore | O |
| A kinder soul on board has she | A |
| Than ever left the land before | O |
| And as her outward course she bends | D |
| Sit closer friends | D |
Arthur Macy
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