An Old Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDD EDEEDFF GHGGIJJ| Hey Old Midsummer are you here again | A |
| With all your harvest store of olden joys | B |
| Vast overhanging meadow lands of rain | C |
| And drowsy dawns and noons when golden grain | C |
| Nods in the sun and lazy truant boys | B |
| Drift ever listlessly adown the day | D |
| Too full of joy to rest and dreams to play | D |
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| The same old Summer with the same old smile | E |
| Beaming upon us in the same old way | D |
| We knew in childhood Though a weary while | E |
| Since that far time yet memories reconcile | E |
| The heart with odorous breaths of clover hay | D |
| And again I hear the doves and the sun streams through | F |
| The old barn door just as it used to do | F |
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| And so it seems like welcoming a friend | G |
| An old OLD friend upon his coming home | H |
| From some far country coming home to spend | G |
| Long loitering days with me And I extend | G |
| My hand in rapturous glee And so you've come | I |
| Ho I'm so glad Come in and take a chair | J |
| Well this is just like OLD times I declare | J |
James Whitcomb Riley
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