To A Youthful Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGI JKJK LMLM NONO PMPM QMQM RMRM BSBS TCTC UVUW XYXY ZDZD A2B2A2B2 C2D2C2D2 BE2BF2 QC2QC2 G2WG2W| Few years have pass'd since thou and I | A |
| Were firmest friends at least in name | B |
| And Childhood's gay sincerity | C |
| Preserved our feelings long the same | B |
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| But now like me too well thou know'st | D |
| What trifles oft the heart recall | E |
| And those who once have loved the most | F |
| Too soon forget they lov'd at all | E |
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| And such the change the heart displays | G |
| So frail is early friendship's reign | H |
| A month's brief lapse perhaps a day's | G |
| Will view thy mind estrang'd again | I |
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| If so it never shall be mine | J |
| To mourn the loss of such a heart | K |
| The fault was Nature's fault not thine | J |
| Which made thee fickle as thou art | K |
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| As rolls the Ocean's changing tide | L |
| So human feelings ebb and flow | M |
| And who would in a breast confide | L |
| Where stormy passions ever glow | M |
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| It boots not that together bred | N |
| Our childish days were days of joy | O |
| My spring of life has quickly fled | N |
| Thou too hast ceas'd to be a boy | O |
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| And when we bid adieu to youth | P |
| Slaves to the specious World's controul | M |
| We sigh a long farewell to truth | P |
| That World corrupts the noblest soul | M |
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| Ah joyous season when the mind | Q |
| Dares all things boldly but to lie | M |
| When Thought ere spoke is unconfin'd | Q |
| And sparkles in the placid eye | M |
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| Not so in Man's maturer years | R |
| When Man himself is but a tool | M |
| When Interest sways our hopes and fears | R |
| And all must love and hate by rule | M |
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| With fools in kindred vice the same | B |
| We learn at length our faults to blend | S |
| And those and those alone may claim | B |
| The prostituted name of friend | S |
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| Such is the common lot of man | T |
| Can we then 'scape from folly free | C |
| Can we reverse the general plan | T |
| Nor be what all in turn must be | C |
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| No for myself so dark my fate | U |
| Through every turn of life hath been | V |
| Man and the World so much I hate | U |
| I care not when I quit the scene | W |
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| But thou with spirit frail and light | X |
| Wilt shine awhile and pass away | Y |
| As glow worms sparkle through the night | X |
| But dare not stand the test of day | Y |
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| Alas whenever Folly calls | Z |
| Where parasites and princes meet | D |
| For cherish'd first in royal halls | Z |
| The welcome vices kindly greet | D |
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| Ev'n now thou'rt nightly seen to add | A2 |
| One insect to the fluttering crowd | B2 |
| And still thy trifling heart is glad | A2 |
| To join the vain and court the proud | B2 |
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| There dost thou glide from fair to fair | C2 |
| Still simpering on with eager haste | D2 |
| As flies along the gay parterre | C2 |
| That taint the flowers they scarcely taste | D2 |
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| But say what nymph will prize the flame | B |
| Which seems as marshy vapours move | E2 |
| To flit along from dame to dame | B |
| An ignis fatuus gleam of love | F2 |
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| What friend for thee howe'er inclin'd | Q |
| Will deign to own a kindred care | C2 |
| Who will debase his manly mind | Q |
| For friendship every fool may share | C2 |
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| In time forbear amidst the throng | G2 |
| No more so base a thing be seen | W |
| No more so idly pass along | G2 |
| Be something any thing but mean | W |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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