First Name Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC BBDDEE FFGGBB HHIIBB| Though some may yearn for titles great and seek the frills of fame | A |
| I do not care to have an extra handle to my name | A |
| I am not hungry for the pomp of life's high dignities | B |
| I do not sigh to sit among the honored LL D 's | B |
| I shall be satisfied if I can be unto the end | C |
| To those I know and live with here a simple first name friend | C |
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| There's nothing like the comradeship which warms the lives of those | B |
| Who make the glorious circle of the Jacks and Bills and Joes | B |
| With all his majesty and power Old Caesar never knew | D |
| The joy of first name fellowship as all the Eddies do | D |
| Let them who will be 'mistered' here and raised above the rest | E |
| I hold a first name greeting is by far the very best | E |
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| Acquaintance calls for dignity You never really know | F |
| The man on whom the terms of pomp you feel you must bestow | F |
| Professor William Joseph Wise may be your friend but still | G |
| You are not certain of the fact till you can call him Bill | G |
| But hearts grow warm and lips grow kind and all the shamming ends | B |
| When you are in the company of good old first name friends | B |
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| The happiest men on earth are not the men of highest rank | H |
| That joy belongs to George and Jim to Henry and to Frank | H |
| With them the prejudice of race and creed and wealth depart | I |
| And men are one in fellowship and always light of heart | I |
| So I would live and laugh and love until my sun descends | B |
| And share the joyous comradeship of honest first name friends | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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