The Unknown Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDE FFGBGBCC HHAIAIJJ| We cannot count our friends nor say | A |
| How many praise us day by day | A |
| Each one of us has friends that he | B |
| Has yet to meet and really know | C |
| Who guard him wheresoe'er they be | B |
| From harm and slander's cruel blow | C |
| They help to light our path with cheer | D |
| Although they pass as strangers here | E |
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| These friends unseen unheard unknown | F |
| Our lasting gratitude should own | F |
| They serve us in a thousand ways | G |
| Where we perhaps should friendless be | B |
| They tell our worth and speak our praise | G |
| And for their service ask no fee | B |
| They choose to be our friends although | C |
| We have not learned to call them so | C |
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| We cannot guess how large the debt | H |
| We owe to friends we have not met | H |
| We only know from day to day | A |
| That we discover here and there | I |
| How one has tried to smooth our way | A |
| And ease our heavy load of care | I |
| Then passed along and left behind | J |
| His friendly gift for us to find | J |
Edgar Albert Guest
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