Old Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJABAB| HOW are they waned and faded from our hearts | A |
| The old companions of our early days | B |
| Of all the many loved which name imparts | A |
| Regret when blamed or rapture at its praise | B |
| What are their several fates by Heaven decreed | C |
| They of the jocund heart and careless brow | D |
| Alas we scarcely know and scarcely heed | C |
| Where in this world of sighs they wander now | D |
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| See how with cold faint smile and courtly nod | E |
| They pass whom wealth and revelry divide | F |
| Who walked together to the house of God | E |
| Read from one book and rested side by side | F |
| No look of recognition lights the eye | G |
| Which laughingly hath met that fellow face | H |
| With careless hands they greet and wander by | G |
| Who parted once with tears and long embrace | H |
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| Oh childhood blessed time of hope and love | I |
| When all we knew was Nature's simple law | J |
| How may we yearn again that time to prove | K |
| When we looked round and loved whate'er we saw | J |
| Now dark suspicion wakes and love departs | A |
| And cold distrust its well feigned smile displays | B |
| And they are waned and faded from our hearts | A |
| The old companions of our early days | B |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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