To My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCEFGF HHIJJIKLML NNOPPOQRQR SSTUUTVWVW XXYZZYA2GA2G| Yes my friends that happier times have been | A |
| Than the present none can contravene | B |
| That a race once lived of nobler worth | C |
| And if ancient chronicles were dumb | D |
| Countless stones in witness forth would come | D |
| From the deepest entrails of the earth | C |
| But this highly favored race has gone | E |
| Gone forever to the realms of night | F |
| We we live The moments are our own | G |
| And the living judge the right | F |
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| Brighter zones my friends no doubt excel | H |
| This the land wherein we're doomed to dwell | H |
| As the hardy travellers proclaim | I |
| But if Nature has denied us much | J |
| Art is yet responsive to our touch | J |
| And our hearts can kindle at her flame | I |
| If the laurel will not flourish here | K |
| If the myrtle is cold winter's prey | L |
| Yet the vine to crown us year by year | M |
| Still puts forth its foliage gay | L |
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| Of a busier life 'tis well to speak | N |
| Where four worlds their wealth to barter seek | N |
| On the world's great market Thames' broad stream | O |
| Ships in thousands go there and depart | P |
| There are seen the costliest works of art | P |
| And the earth god Mammon reigns supreme | O |
| But the sun his image only graves | Q |
| On the silent streamlet's level plain | R |
| Not upon the torrent's muddy waves | Q |
| Swollen by the heavy rain | R |
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| Far more blessed than we in northern states | S |
| Dwells the beggar at the angel gates | S |
| For he sees the peerless city Rome | T |
| Beauty's glorious charms around him lie | U |
| And a second heaven up toward the sky | U |
| Mounts St Peter's proud and wondrous dome | T |
| But with all the charms that splendor grants | V |
| Rome is but the tomb of ages past | W |
| Life but smiles upon the blooming plants | V |
| That the seasons round her cast | W |
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| Greater actions elsewhere may be rife | X |
| Than with us in our contracted life | X |
| But beneath the sun there's naught that's new | Y |
| Yet we see the great of every age | Z |
| Pass before us on the world's wide stage | Z |
| Thoughtfully and calmly in review | Y |
| All in life repeats itself forever | A2 |
| Young for ay is phantasy alone | G |
| What has happened nowhere happened never | A2 |
| That has never older grown | G |
Friedrich Schiller
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