The Old Familiar Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC FGC HIC JKC GDC ILC| I have had playmates I have had companions | A |
| In my days of childhood in my joyful school days | B |
| All all are gone the old familiar faces | C |
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| I have been laughing I have been carousing | D |
| Drinking late sitting late with my bosom cronies | E |
| All all are gone the old familiar faces | C |
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| I loved a Love once fairest among women | F |
| Closed are her doors on me I must not see her | G |
| All all are gone the old familiar faces | C |
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| I have a friend a kinder friend has no man | H |
| Like an ingrate I left my friend abruptly | I |
| Left him to muse on the old familiar faces | C |
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| Ghost like I paced round the haunts of my childhood | J |
| Earth seem'd a desert I was bound to traverse | K |
| Seeking to find the old familiar faces | C |
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| Friend of my bosom thou more than a brother | G |
| Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling | D |
| So might we talk of the old familiar faces | C |
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| How some they have died and some they have left me | I |
| And some are taken from me all are departed | L |
| All all are gone the old familiar faces | C |
Charles Lamb
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