Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IAJKCLM NC LJOO PAQRST| I VIEWED him well the visible fat fool | A |
| And yet I took him in for I contended | B |
| Friends are not sent in order of our choosing | C |
| They come unsuited like the gifts of God | D |
| I would not do a perfidy to friendship | E |
| I let him past the private inner gate | F |
| And made him be at home among my treasures | G |
| Like my true friend | H |
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| Now I am ground with a grim torture daily | I |
| That I have been befriended by a fool | A |
| He forages at will upon my garden | J |
| He noses all its pretty secrets out | K |
| And still the fool finds nothing to his liking | C |
| Meeting a modest velveteen affair | L |
| Peevish he hangs his sad and silly head | M |
| 'Alas such unsubstantial gaudy goods ' | - |
| Thus he meets pansies meeting zinnias | N |
| He nearly faints at such a rioting | C |
| 'Alas what fruit will these red wantons bear ' | - |
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| And not a perfume spills upon the air | L |
| But his malicious nose suspects a poison | J |
| As he goes browsing like an ancient ass | O |
| An old distempered ass | O |
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| I'd almost rather be a friendless man | P |
| And have my house my own The prying fool | A |
| Asks me the queerest idiotic questions | Q |
| 'O friend is this the harvest of your hands | R |
| How will you stand before the lord of harvests | S |
| These are the gardens of your idleness | T |
| Where is the vineyard friend ' | - |
John Crowe Ransom
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