Good Books Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM| Good books are friendly things to own | A |
| If you are busy they will wait | B |
| They will not call you on the phone | A |
| Or wake you if the hour is late | B |
| They stand together row by row | C |
| Upon the low shelf or the high | D |
| But if you're lonesome this you know | C |
| You have a friend or two nearby | D |
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| The fellowship of books is real | E |
| They're never noisy when you're still | F |
| They won't disturb you at your meal | E |
| They'll comfort you when you are ill | F |
| The lonesome hours they'll always share | G |
| When slighted they will not complain | H |
| And though for them you've ceased to care | G |
| Your constant friends they'll still remain | H |
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| Good books your faults will never see | I |
| Or tell about them round the town | J |
| If you would have their company | I |
| You merely have to take them down | J |
| They'll help you pass the time away | K |
| They'll counsel give if that you need | L |
| He has true friends for night and day | K |
| Who has a few good books to read | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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