If Anybody's Friend Be Dead, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF EHIJ AKLM NOPO QIRS| If anybody's friend be dead | A |
| It 's sharpest of the theme | B |
| The thinking how they walked alive | C |
| At such and such a time | D |
| - | |
| Their costume of a Sunday | E |
| Some manner of the hair | F |
| A prank nobody knew but them | G |
| Lost in the sepulchre | F |
| - | |
| How warm they were on such a day | E |
| You almost feel the date | H |
| So short way off it seems and now | I |
| They 're centuries from that | J |
| - | |
| How pleased they were at what you said | A |
| You try to touch the smile | K |
| And dip your fingers in the frost | L |
| When was it can you tell | M |
| - | |
| You asked the company to tea | N |
| Acquaintance just a few | O |
| And chatted close with this grand thing | P |
| That don't remember you | O |
| - | |
| Past bows and invitations | Q |
| Past interview and vow | I |
| Past what ourselves can estimate | R |
| That makes the quick of woe | S |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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