Dan Paine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGDD HIHIJKDD LMLMNNDD OPOPQQDD| Old friend of mine whose chiming name | A |
| Has been the burthen of a rhyme | B |
| Within my heart since first I came | A |
| To know thee in thy mellow prime | B |
| With warm emotions in my breast | C |
| That can but coldly be expressed | C |
| And hopes and wishes wild and vain | D |
| I reach my hand to thee Dan Paine | D |
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| In fancy as I sit alone | E |
| In gloomy fellowship with care | F |
| I hear again thy cheery tone | E |
| And wheel for thee an easy chair | F |
| And from my hand the pencil falls | G |
| My book upon the carpet sprawls | G |
| As eager soul and heart and brain | D |
| Leap up to welcome thee Dan Paine | D |
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| A something gentle in thy mein | H |
| A something tender in thy voice | I |
| Has made my trouble so serene | H |
| I can but weep from very choice | I |
| And even then my tears I guess | J |
| Hold more of sweet than bitterness | K |
| And more of gleaming shine than rain | D |
| Because of thy bright smile Dan Paine | D |
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| The wrinkles that the years have spun | L |
| And tangled round thy tawny face | M |
| Are kinked with laughter every one | L |
| And fashioned in a mirthful grace | M |
| And though the twinkle of thine eyes | N |
| Is keen as frost when Summer dies | N |
| It can not long as frost remain | D |
| While thy warm soul shines out Dan Paine | D |
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| And so I drain a health to thee | O |
| May merry Joy and jolly Mirth | P |
| Like children clamber on thy knee | O |
| And ride thee round the happy earth | P |
| And when at last the hand of Fate | Q |
| Shall lift the latch of Canaan's gate | Q |
| And usher me in thy domain | D |
| Smile on me just as now Dan Paine | D |
James Whitcomb Riley
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