Reach Your Hand To Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDBB BEBEFFGG HBHBFFAA| Reach your hand to me my friend | A |
| With its heartiest caress | B |
| Sometime there will come an end | A |
| To its present faithfulness | B |
| Sometime I may ask in vain | C |
| For the touch of it again | D |
| When between us land or sea | B |
| Holds it ever back from me | B |
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| Sometime I may need it so | B |
| Groping somewhere in the night | E |
| It will seem to me as though | B |
| Just a touch however light | E |
| Would make all the darkness day | F |
| And along some sunny way | F |
| Lead me through an April shower | G |
| Of my tears to this fair hour | G |
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| O the present is too sweet | H |
| To go on forever thus | B |
| Round the corner of the street | H |
| Who can say what waits for us | B |
| Meeting greeting night and day | F |
| Faring each the self same way | F |
| Still somewhere the path must end | A |
| Reach your hand to me my friend | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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