Greeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEFGGF HHIJKI LLMNNM OOPQQP| I spread a scanty board too late | A |
| The old time guests for whom I wait | A |
| Come few and slow methinks to day | B |
| Ah who could hear my messages | C |
| Across the dim unsounded seas | D |
| On which so many have sailed away | B |
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| Come then old friends who linger yet | E |
| And let us meet as we have met | E |
| Once more beneath this low sunshine | F |
| And grateful for the good we 've known | G |
| The riddles solved the ills outgrown | G |
| Shake bands upon the border line | F |
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| The favor asked too oft before | H |
| From your indulgent ears once more | H |
| I crave and if belated lays | I |
| To slower feebler measures move | J |
| The silent sympathy of love | K |
| To me is dearer now than praise | I |
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| And ye O younger friends for whom | L |
| My hearth and heart keep open room | L |
| Come smiling through the shadows long | M |
| Be with me while the sun goes down | N |
| And with your cheerful voices drown | N |
| The minor of my even song | M |
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| For equal through the day and night | O |
| The wise Eternal oversight | O |
| And love and power and righteous will | P |
| Remain the law of destiny | Q |
| The best for each and all must be | Q |
| And life its promise shall fulfil | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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