To My Aging Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD EFEF DGDG HIJI KDKD| It is no winter night comes down | A |
| Upon our hearts dear friends of old | B |
| But a May evening softly brown | A |
| Whose wind is rather cold | B |
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| We are not like yon sad eyed West | C |
| Phantoms that brood o'er Time's dust hoard | D |
| We are like yon Moon in mourning drest | D |
| But gazing on her lord | D |
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| Come nearer to the hearth sweet friends | E |
| Draw nigher closer hand and chair | F |
| Ours is a love that never ends | E |
| For God is dearest there | F |
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| We will not talk about the past | D |
| We will not ponder ancient pain | G |
| Those are but deep foundations cast | D |
| For peaks of soaring gain | G |
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| We waiting Dead will warm our bones | H |
| At our poor smouldering earthly fire | I |
| And talk of wide eyed living ones | J |
| Who have what we desire | I |
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| O Living ye know what is death | K |
| We by and by shall know it too | D |
| Humble with bated hoping breath | K |
| We are coming fast to you | D |
George Macdonald
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