Friends Departed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GHGH GIGI DJDJ KLML NONO PQPC RGRG STST| They are all gone into the world of light | A |
| And I alone sit ling'ring here | B |
| Their very memory is fair and bright | A |
| And my sad thoughts doth clear | C |
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| It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast | D |
| Like stars upon some gloomy grove | E |
| Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest | D |
| After the sun's remove | F |
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| I see them walking in an air of glory | G |
| Whose light doth trample on my days | H |
| My days which are at best but dull and hoary | G |
| Mere glimmering and decays | H |
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| O holy Hope and high Humility | G |
| High as the heavens above | I |
| These are your walks and you have show'd them me | G |
| To kindle my cold love | I |
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| Dear beauteous Death the jewel of the Just | D |
| Shining nowhere but in the dark | J |
| What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust | D |
| Could man outlook that mark | J |
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| He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest may know | K |
| At first sight if the bird be flown | L |
| But what fair well or grove he sings in now | M |
| That is to him unknown | L |
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| And yet as Angels in some brighter dreams | N |
| Call to the soul when man doth sleep | O |
| So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes | N |
| And into glory peep | O |
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| If a star were confin'd into a tomb | P |
| Her captive flames must needs burn there | Q |
| But when the hand that lock'd her up gives room | P |
| She'll shine through all the sphere | C |
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| O Father of eternal life and all | R |
| Created glories under Thee | G |
| Resume Thy spirit from this world of thrall | R |
| Into true liberty | G |
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| Either disperse these mists which blot and fill | S |
| My perspective still as they pass | T |
| Or else remove me hence unto that hill | S |
| Where I shall need no glass | T |
Henry Vaughan
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