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