My Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEB FGHGBIEI JKLKABMB HJBNOPQP RSTSUVWV UJBJUBXB| MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own | A |
| And a musical tongue has he | B |
| We sit and look in each other's face | C |
| And are very good company | B |
| A heart he has full warm and red | D |
| As ever a heart I see | B |
| And as long as I keep true to him | E |
| Why he'll keep true to me | B |
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| When the wind blows high and the snow falls fast | F |
| And we hear the wassailers' roar | G |
| My Friend and I with a right good will | H |
| We bolt the chamber door | G |
| I smile at him and he smiles at me | B |
| In a dreamy calm profound | I |
| Till his heart leaps up in the midst of him | E |
| With a comfortable sound | I |
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| His warm breath kisses my thin gray hair | J |
| And reddens my ashen cheeks | K |
| He knows me better than you all know | L |
| Though never a word he speaks | K |
| Knows me as well as some had known | A |
| Were things not as things be | B |
| But hey what matters my Friend and I | M |
| Are capital company | B |
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| At dead of night when the house is still | H |
| He opens his pictures fair | J |
| Faces that are that used to be | B |
| And faces that never were | N |
| My wife sits sewing beside my hearth | O |
| My little ones frolic wild | P |
| Though Lilian's married these twenty years | Q |
| And I never had a child | P |
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| But hey what matters When those who laugh | R |
| May weep to morrow and they | S |
| Who weep be as those that wept not all | T |
| Their tears long wiped away | S |
| I shall burn out like you my Friend | U |
| With a bright warm heart and bold | V |
| That flickers up to the last then drops | W |
| Into quiet ashes cold | V |
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| And when you flicker on me old Friend | U |
| In the old man's elbow chair | J |
| Or something easier still where we | B |
| Lie down to arise up fair | J |
| And young and happy why then my Friend | U |
| Should other friends ask of me | B |
| Tell them I lived and loved and died | X |
| In the best of all company | B |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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