If Anybody's Friend Be Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EDFD EDDD DGDD DDHD DDDI| A | |
| - | |
| If anybody's friend be dead | B |
| It's sharpest of the theme | C |
| The thinking how they walked alive mdash | D |
| At such and such a time mdash | D |
| - | |
| Their costume of a Sunday | E |
| Some manner of the Hair mdash | D |
| A prank nobody knew but them | F |
| Lost in the Sepulchre mdash | D |
| - | |
| How warm they were on such a day | E |
| You almost feel the date mdash | D |
| So short way off it seems mdash | D |
| And now mdash they're Centuries from that mdash | D |
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| How pleased they were at what you said mdash | D |
| You try to touch the smile | G |
| And dip your fingers in the frost mdash | D |
| When was it mdash Can you tell mdash | D |
| - | |
| You asked the Company to tea mdash | D |
| Acquaintance mdash just a few mdash | D |
| And chatted close with this Grand Thing | H |
| That don't remember you mdash | D |
| - | |
| Past Bows and Invitations mdash | D |
| Past Interview and Vow mdash | D |
| Past what Ourself can estimate mdash | D |
| That mdash makes the Quick of Woe | I |
Emily Dickinson
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