Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAC DEDDF GHGGI JKJJL MNMMO PQPPO OROOG STSSU VSWVG XYXXZ A2OA2A2G| I think awhile of Love and while I think | A |
| Love is to me a world | B |
| Sole meat and sweetest drink | A |
| And close connecting link | A |
| Tween heaven and earth | C |
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| I only know it is not how or why | D |
| My greatest happiness | E |
| However hard I try | D |
| Not if I were to die | D |
| Can I explain | F |
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| I fain would ask my friend how it can be | G |
| But when the time arrives | H |
| Then Love is more lovely | G |
| Than anything to me | G |
| And so I'm dumb | I |
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| For if the truth were known Love cannot speak | J |
| But only thinks and does | K |
| Though surely out 'twill leak | J |
| Without the help of Greek | J |
| Or any tongue | L |
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| A man may love the truth and practise it | M |
| Beauty he may admire | N |
| And goodness not omit | M |
| As much as may befit | M |
| To reverence | O |
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| But only when these three together meet | P |
| As they always incline | Q |
| And make one soul the seat | P |
| And favorite retreat | P |
| Of loveliness | O |
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| When under kindred shape like loves and hates | O |
| And a kindred nature | R |
| Proclaim us to be mates | O |
| Exposed to equal fates | O |
| Eternally | G |
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| And each may other help and service do | S |
| Drawing Love's bands more tight | T |
| Service he ne'er shall rue | S |
| While one and one make two | S |
| And two are one | U |
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| In such case only doth man fully prove | V |
| Fully as man can do | S |
| What power there is in Love | W |
| His inmost soul to move | V |
| Resistlessly | G |
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| Two sturdy oaks I mean which side by side | X |
| Withstand the winter's storm | Y |
| And spite of wind and tide | X |
| Grow up the meadow's pride | X |
| For both are strong | Z |
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| Above they barely touch but undermined | A2 |
| Down to their deepest source | O |
| Admiring you shall find | A2 |
| Their roots are intertwined | A2 |
| Insep'rably | G |
Henry David Thoreau
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