Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM NONOGG PQPQRR STSTMM UVUVWW XYXYZZ KXKXMM| Friend the Great Ruler easily content | A |
| Needs not the laws it has laborious been | B |
| The task of small professors to invent | A |
| A single wheel impels the whole machine | C |
| Matter and spirit yea that simple law | D |
| Pervading nature which our Newton saw | D |
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| This taught the spheres slaves to one golden rein | E |
| Their radiant labyrinths to weave around | F |
| Creation's mighty hearts this made the chain | E |
| Which into interwoven systems bound | F |
| All spirits streaming to the spiritual sun | G |
| As brooks that ever into ocean run | G |
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| Did not the same strong mainspring urge and guide | H |
| Our hearts to meet in love's eternal bond | I |
| Linked to thine arm O Raphael by thy side | H |
| Might I aspire to reach to souls beyond | I |
| Our earth and bid the bright ambition go | J |
| To that perfection which the angels know | J |
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| Happy O happy I have found thee I | K |
| Have out of millions found thee and embraced | L |
| Thou out of millions mine Let earth and sky | K |
| Return to darkness and the antique waste | L |
| To chaos shocked let warring atoms be | M |
| Still shall each heart unto the other flee | M |
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| Do I not find within thy radiant eyes | N |
| Fairer reflections of all joys most fair | O |
| In thee I marvel at myself the dyes | N |
| Of lovely earth seem lovelier painted there | O |
| And in the bright looks of the friend is given | G |
| A heavenlier mirror even of the heaven | G |
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| Sadness casts off its load and gayly goes | P |
| From the intolerant storm to rest awhile | Q |
| In love's true heart sure haven of repose | P |
| Does not pain's veriest transports learn to smile | Q |
| From that bright eloquence affection gave | R |
| To friendly looks there finds not pain a grave | R |
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| In all creation did I stand alone | S |
| Still to the rocks my dreams a soul should find | T |
| Mine arms should wreathe themselves around the stone | S |
| My griefs should feel a listener in the wind | T |
| My joy its echo in the caves should be | M |
| Fool if ye will Fool for sweet sympathy | M |
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| We are dead groups of matter when we hate | U |
| But when we love we are as gods Unto | V |
| The gentle fetters yearning through each state | U |
| And shade of being multiform and through | V |
| All countless spirits save of all the sire | W |
| Moves breathes and blends the one divine desire | W |
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| Lo arm in arm through every upward grade | X |
| From the rude mongrel to the starry Greek | Y |
| Who the fine link between the mortal made | X |
| And heaven's last seraph everywhere we seek | Y |
| Union and bond till in one sea sublime | Z |
| Of love be merged all measure and all time | Z |
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| Friendless ruled God His solitary sky | K |
| He felt the want and therefore souls were made | X |
| The blessed mirrors of his bliss His eye | K |
| No equal in His loftiest works surveyed | X |
| And from the source whence souls are quickened He | M |
| Called His companion forth ETERNITY | M |
Friedrich Schiller
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