O Friend, Begin A Loftier Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCC ADDEE AFGHH AIIJJ| O friend begin a loftier song | A |
| Confusion falls upon your mind | B |
| A sense of evil makes you blind | B |
| What use you say is it to be | C |
| I know not GOD GOD knows not me | C |
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| O friend begin a loftier song | A |
| In other minds you place no trust | D |
| You tread your laurels in the dust | D |
| You see no Future Hope has fled | E |
| Youth had its dreams but Youth is dead | E |
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| O friend begin a loftier song | A |
| The sweet ideal of past years | F |
| Speaks in my songs they are my tears | G |
| I'll weep no more I'll sing no lays | H |
| To bury Youth for idle praise | H |
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| O friend begin a loftier song | A |
| Come through the gateway of the Past | I |
| Dear friend The world will hear at last | I |
| The little songs the poets sing | J |
| Do thou with anthems make it ring | J |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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