To An Old Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBB| When we have lived our little lives and wandered all their byways through | A |
| When we've seen all that we shall see and finished all that we must do | A |
| When we shall take one backward look off yonder where our journey ends | B |
| I pray that you shall be as glad as I shall be that we were friends | B |
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| Time was we started out to find the treasures and the joys of life | C |
| We sought them in the land of gold through many days of bitter strife | C |
| When we were young we yearned for fame in search of joy we went afar | D |
| Only to learn how very cold and distant all the strangers are | D |
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| When we have met all we shall meet and know what destiny has planned | E |
| I shall rejoice in that last hour that I have known your friendly hand | E |
| I shall go singing down the way off yonder as my sun descends | B |
| As one who's had a happy life made glorious by the best of friends | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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