A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB A CD A C A DE A F A EF A E A GEG A HE A HE A A A IJIJ A KLKL A KMKM| HE | A |
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| Let us be friends My life is sad and lonely | A |
| While yours with love is beautiful and bright | B |
| Be kind to me I ask your friendship only | A |
| No Star is robbed by lending darkness light | B |
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| SHE | A |
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| I give you friendship as I understand it | C |
| A sentiment I feel for all mankind | D |
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| HE | A |
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| Oh give me more may not one friend command it | C |
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| SHE | A |
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| Look in the skies 'tis there the star you'll find | D |
| It casts its beams on all with equal favour | E |
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| HE | A |
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| I would have more than what all men may claim | F |
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| SHE | A |
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| Then your ideas of friendship strongly savour | E |
| Of sentiments which wear another name | F |
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| HE | A |
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| May not one friend receive more than another | E |
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| SHE | A |
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| Not man from woman and still remain a friend | G |
| Life holds but three for her a father brother | E |
| Lover against the rest she must contend | G |
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| HE | A |
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| Against the universe I would protect you | H |
| With my life even nor hold the price too dear | E |
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| SHE | A |
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| But not against YOURSELF should fate select you | H |
| As Lancelot for foolish Guinevere | E |
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| HE | A |
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| You would not tempt me | A |
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| SHE | A |
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| That is undisputed | I |
| We put the question back upon the shelf | J |
| My point remains unanswered unrefuted | I |
| No man protects a woman from himself | J |
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| HE | A |
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| I am immune for once I loved with passion | K |
| And all the fires within me burned to dust | L |
| I think of woman but in friendly fashion | K |
| In me she finds a comrade safe to trust | L |
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| SHE | A |
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| So said Mount Peelee to the listening ocean | K |
| Behold what followed Let the good be wise | M |
| Though human hearts proclaim extinct emotion | K |
| Beware how high the tides of friendship rise | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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