My Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NONO| I had a friend who battled for the truth | A |
| With stubborn heart and obstinate despair | B |
| Till all his beauty left him and his youth | A |
| And there were few to love him anywhere | B |
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| Then would he wander out among the graves | C |
| And think of dead men lying in a row | D |
| Or standing on a cliff observe the waves | C |
| And hear the wistful sound of winds below | D |
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| And yet they told him nothing So he sought | E |
| The twittering forest at the break of day | F |
| Or on fantastic mountains shaped a thought | E |
| As lofty and impenitent as they | F |
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| And next he went in wonder through a town | G |
| Slowly by day and hurriedly by night | H |
| And watched men walking up the street and down | G |
| With timorous and terrible delight | H |
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| Weary he drew man's wisdom from a book | I |
| And pondered on the high words spoken of old | J |
| Pacing a lamplit room but soon forsook | I |
| The golden sentences that left him cold | J |
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| After a woman found him and his head | K |
| Lay on her breast till he forgot his pain | L |
| In gentle kisses on a midnight bed | K |
| And welcomed royal winged joy again | M |
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| When love became a loathing as it must | N |
| He knew not where to turn and he was wise | O |
| Being now old to sink among the dust | N |
| And rest his rebel heart and close his eyes | O |
James Elroy Flecker
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