A Friend That Talks Back Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ABCB DEFE DEFE GHIH GHJK LMNM LMNM OGEG PGEG QRSR QRSR TUVU TUWU XGYG XGYG ZA2B2A2 ZA2B2A2 TGC2G TGC2G PFD2R PRD2R E2GF2G E2GF2G G2H2I2H2 G2H2J2H2 K2DL2M2 K2DL2M2| I can see you right there | A |
| Lain across the grown grass | B |
| Having quieted down | C |
| As the evening hours pass | B |
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| Your warrior arms bear | A |
| No dual blade of class | B |
| A face without a frown | C |
| With fate like brittle glass | B |
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| Cold winds begin to near | D |
| Our open place of stay | E |
| While your white supple skin | F |
| Is turning bluish gray | E |
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| My gallant comrade dear | D |
| Confidant If I may | E |
| I now wish to begin | F |
| These untold things to say | E |
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| Few aged but young we were | G |
| When our metal helms hid | H |
| Mugs of utter disgrace | I |
| Freedom wardens forbid | H |
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| Death servants dare deter | G |
| With sword in hand to bid | H |
| For our lives resurface | J |
| The spirits intrepid | K |
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| Scorn and disdain in mind | L |
| For gold is a far dream | M |
| Thoughts of it down it weighs | N |
| Past a weakening seam | M |
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| Shackled in black steel bind | L |
| Dead to them so we seem | M |
| Wickedly kill our ways | N |
| To make our blood not teem | M |
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| And so we fought and fought | O |
| Enraged by a sliver | G |
| Of a hope that one day | E |
| Life be brought by giver | G |
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| So to pay for us bought | P |
| With some gold silver | G |
| Now with faith thrown away | E |
| Be giving avenger | G |
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| Then we two took our trek | Q |
| Past some forest of green | R |
| Once you swore to follow | S |
| Your prided instinct keen | R |
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| You heed my call beck | Q |
| As knight you slowly glean | R |
| My forced princely hollow | S |
| Endeavors at fourteen | R |
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| I knew not the noble | T |
| For we were only slave | U |
| To hallowed crown steel | V |
| And pompous wealthy wave | U |
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| We try to be humble | T |
| Walk along as we pave | U |
| Still I know how to kill | W |
| Of which I cannot stave | U |
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| I had been threatened by | X |
| Ministerial jester | G |
| To live the dead man's words | Y |
| Of laughingstock joker | G |
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| Paint an embellished lie | X |
| Act a rough demeanor | G |
| In tune with prattling birds | Y |
| Dunce of a fence sitter | G |
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| As such I have lost sight | Z |
| Of the currently unknown | A2 |
| But golden signs of seeds | B2 |
| Sprout later to be sown | A2 |
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| Your will oh what might | Z |
| Strayed I would be alone | A2 |
| True be guardian deeds | B2 |
| Kind to the weakest bone | A2 |
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| We now face capital | T |
| And foolish fake father | G |
| His boorish attendants | C2 |
| And frail royal candor | G |
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| Yet felled by general | T |
| You stand up no longer | G |
| Our men raise the pennants | C2 |
| Salute to a soldier | G |
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| I for sure knew you not | P |
| When we had first been | F |
| Placed within a locked cage | D2 |
| Strangers as we were seen | R |
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| But you had cared a lot | P |
| Some time knelt as you mean | R |
| To follow and engage | D2 |
| As my steward serene | R |
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| Loyal to the young me | E2 |
| While casual words gather | G |
| When you are royal too | F2 |
| As known to your mother | G |
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| Still you pledge in decree | E2 |
| Though we were owned rather | G |
| We delude and bend true | F2 |
| To fool court oaf nature | G |
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| So I will not forget | G2 |
| Our set bickers at noon | H2 |
| Prince the apt liar and | I2 |
| Counsel his nagging boon | H2 |
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| A few years apart yet | G2 |
| Gone you are far too soon | H2 |
| Foe teacher brother friend | J2 |
| Real kin and fellow goon | H2 |
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| Again the winds have come | K2 |
| As I bring your head near | D |
| Close to my downcast chest | L2 |
| Its heart I hope you hear | M2 |
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| And I will miss you some | K2 |
| For beloved you are dear | D |
| As my final request | L2 |
| Please guide me still from here | M2 |
In Delta
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 04/22/2021
Poet's note: A Friend That Talks Back is a poem I finished writing on April 17, 2021. It is a piece inspired by the death of a character in a story I have been reading around that time. To me, it felt that the timing of it was very unfortunate. However, it led me to have another inspiration for writing.
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