Ballad Of Dead Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBB ABABBBBB ABABBBBB D BBBB| As we the withered ferns | A |
| By the roadway lying | B |
| Time the jester spurns | A |
| All our prayers and prying | B |
| All our tears and sighing | B |
| Sorrow change and woe | C |
| All our where and whying | B |
| For friends that come and go | B |
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| Life awakes and burns | A |
| Age and death defying | B |
| Till at last it learns | A |
| All but Love is dying | B |
| Love's the trade we're plying | B |
| God has willed it so | B |
| Shrouds are what we're buying | B |
| For friends that come and go | B |
| - | |
| Man forever yearns | A |
| For the thing that's flying | B |
| Everywhere he turns | A |
| Men to dust are drying | B |
| Dust that wanders eying | B |
| With eyes that hardly glow | B |
| New faces dimly spying | B |
| For friends that come and go | B |
| - | |
| ENVOY | D |
| - | |
| And thus we all are nighing | B |
| The truth we fear to know | B |
| Death will end our crying | B |
| For friends that come and go | B |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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