A Breach Of Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEEFFGGCCHHIIFF J KLLMMJJKKNNFF OOPQBBRRAAMMSSTTIS friendship's test to guard the name | A |
Of him you love from all attack | B |
As you are to his face the same | A |
To be when you're behind his back | B |
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Now good old loyal Jimmy Green | C |
A traitor to you have I been | D |
As false as Arnold to my trust | E |
Your name I've trampled in the dust | E |
Last night I lingered out till two | F |
And said that I had been with you | F |
And then straightway my wife began | G |
To prove to me that you're no man | G |
'What out again ' said she 'with Green | C |
No decent man with him is seen | C |
No man who valued much his home | H |
With him would ever care to roam | H |
But for the children long ago | I |
His own wife would have quit I know | I |
His only friends are loafers who | F |
Don't care what vicious things they do | F |
He'd steal he'd lie he's insincere ' | - |
And all I said was 'Yes my dear ' | - |
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'Who else was with you tell me pray | J |
Come answer me and right away ' | - |
And then I muttered 'Freddie Brown ' | - |
And promptly turned poor Freddie down | K |
'What Brown ' she screamed 'that low down thing | L |
Who all his life has had his fling | L |
That selfish brute who doesn't care | M |
What shabby clothes his wife must wear | M |
So long as he can spend his pay | J |
And turn the night hours into day | J |
I'd never go about the town | K |
And tell that I had been with Brown | K |
I've always said his hang dog look | N |
Betrayed the fact that he's a crook | N |
And you with him Of all men you | F |
I wonder now what next you'll do | F |
You know Fred Brown's a man to fear ' | - |
And all I said was 'Yes my dear ' | - |
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'Who else was with you all this night ' | - |
She asked and I said 'Billy White ' | - |
And Billy White was next to fall | O |
Before her rhetoric in the hall | O |
I don't remember now just what | P |
She said of Bill but 'twas a lot | Q |
Perhaps I should have argued back | B |
And spared my friends from her attack | B |
Perhaps I should have pointed out | R |
That they are men beyond all doubt | R |
Men who have won their share of fame | A |
That each one bears an honored name | A |
Perhaps I should have argued there | M |
And proved her charges most unfair | M |
But it was two as I have said | S |
And I was tired and wished for bed | S |
So by the short route chose to steer | T |
And all I said was 'Yes my dear ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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