A Breach Of Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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TIS friendship's test to guard the nameA
Of him you love from all attackB
As you are to his face the sameA
To be when you're behind his backB
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Now good old loyal Jimmy GreenC
A traitor to you have I beenD
As false as Arnold to my trustE
Your name I've trampled in the dustE
Last night I lingered out till twoF
And said that I had been with youF
And then straightway my wife beganG
To prove to me that you're no manG
'What out again ' said she 'with GreenC
No decent man with him is seenC
No man who valued much his homeH
With him would ever care to roamH
But for the children long agoI
His own wife would have quit I knowI
His only friends are loafers whoF
Don't care what vicious things they doF
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 prayJ
Come answer me and right away '-
And then I muttered 'Freddie Brown '-
And promptly turned poor Freddie downK
'What Brown ' she screamed 'that low down thingL
Who all his life has had his flingL
That selfish brute who doesn't careM
What shabby clothes his wife must wearM
So long as he can spend his payJ
And turn the night hours into dayJ
I'd never go about the townK
And tell that I had been with BrownK
I've always said his hang dog lookN
Betrayed the fact that he's a crookN
And you with him Of all men youF
I wonder now what next you'll doF
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 fallO
Before her rhetoric in the hallO
I don't remember now just whatP
She said of Bill but 'twas a lotQ
Perhaps I should have argued backB
And spared my friends from her attackB
Perhaps I should have pointed outR
That they are men beyond all doubtR
Men who have won their share of fameA
That each one bears an honored nameA
Perhaps I should have argued thereM
And proved her charges most unfairM
But it was two as I have saidS
And I was tired and wished for bedS
So by the short route chose to steerT
And all I said was 'Yes my dear '-

Edgar Albert Guest



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