A Letter To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFGF HIJIKLKL| The past is like a story | A |
| I have listened to in dreams | B |
| That vanished in the glory | A |
| Of the Morning's early gleams | B |
| And at my shadow glancing | C |
| I feel a loss of strength | D |
| As the Day of Life advancing | C |
| Leaves it shorn of half its length | D |
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| But it's all in vain to worry | A |
| At the rapid race of Time | E |
| And he flies in such a flurry | A |
| When I trip him with a rhyme | E |
| I'll bother him no longer | F |
| Than to thank you for the thought | G |
| That 'my fame is growing stronger | F |
| As you really think it ought ' | - |
| - | |
| And though I fall below it | H |
| I might know as much of mirth | I |
| To live and die a poet | J |
| Of unacknowledged worth | I |
| For Fame is but a vagrant | K |
| Though a loyal one and brave | L |
| And his laurels ne'er so fragrant | K |
| As when scattered o'er the grave | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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