Comrades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABCBC BDBDAEAF GHGHBIBI BJBJAKAK LMLMNENB ONONANAN| Where are the friends that I knew in my Maying | A |
| In the days of my youth in the first of my roaming | A |
| We were dear we were leal O far we went straying | A |
| Now never a heart to my heart comes homing | A |
| Where is he now the dark boy slender | B |
| Who taught me bare back stirrup and reins | C |
| I loved him he loved me my beautiful tender | B |
| Tamer of horses on grass grown plains | C |
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| Where is he now whose eyes swam brighter | B |
| Softer than love in his turbulent charms | D |
| Who taught me to strike and to fall dear fighter | B |
| And gathered me up in his boyhood arms | D |
| Taught me the rifle and with me went riding | A |
| Suppled my limbs to the horseman's war | E |
| Where is he now for whom my heart's biding | A |
| Biding biding but he rides far | F |
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| O love that passes the love of woman | G |
| Who that hath felt it shall ever forget | H |
| When the breath of life with a throb turns human | G |
| And a lad's heart is to a lad's heart set | H |
| Ever forever lover and rover | B |
| They shall cling nor each from other shall part | I |
| Till the reign of the stars in the heavens be over | B |
| And life is dust in each faithful heart | I |
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| They are dead the American grasses under | B |
| There is no one now who presses my side | J |
| By the African chotts I am riding asunder | B |
| And with great joy ride I the last great ride | J |
| I am fey I am fain of sudden dying | A |
| Thousands of miles there is no one near | K |
| And my heart all the night it is crying crying | A |
| In the bosoms of dead lads darling dear | K |
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| Hearts of my music them dark earth covers | L |
| Comrades to die and to die for were they | M |
| In the width of the world there were no such rovers | L |
| Back to back breast to breast it was ours to stay | M |
| And the highest on earth was the vow that we cherished | N |
| To spur forth from the crowd and come back never more | E |
| And to ride in the track of great souls perished | N |
| Till the nests of the lark shall roof us o'er | B |
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| Yet lingers a horseman on Altai highlands | O |
| Who hath joy of me riding the Tartar glissade | N |
| And one far faring o'er orient islands | O |
| Whose blood yet glints with my blade's accolade | N |
| North west east I fling you my last hallooing | A |
| Last love to the breasts where my own has bled | N |
| Through the reach of the desert my soul leaps pursuing | A |
| My star where it rises a Star of the Dead | N |
George Edward Woodberry
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