Ballade Of Dead Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBB ABABBBBB ABABBBBB D BBBBAs 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 |
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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 |
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Envoy | D |
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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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