My Lost Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HDHD IJIJ KLKL MNMN OBOB| One by one they have slipped from Earth | A |
| And vanished into the depths of space | B |
| And I beside my lonely hearth | C |
| Find none to take their place | B |
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| Never a word of fond farewell | D |
| Fell from their lips ere they were gone | E |
| Never a hint since then to tell | D |
| If after night came dawn | E |
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| Latest of all to thus depart | F |
| Still is thy hand clasp warm in mine | G |
| Wilt thou not tell me where thou art | F |
| Canst thou impart no sign | G |
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| Wild are the winds above thy grave | H |
| Cold is the form I loved so well | D |
| But what to thee are storms that rave | H |
| Or the snow that last night fell | D |
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| Out in the awful void of night | I |
| Numberless suns and planets roll | J |
| Has one of all those isles of light | I |
| Received thy homeless soul | J |
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| Mute is the sky as an empty tomb | K |
| Trackless the path and all unknown | L |
| What means this journey through its gloom | K |
| Which each must make alone | L |
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| Vain is the task I strive no more | M |
| To learn the secret of their fate | N |
| Till sounds for me the muffled oar | M |
| I can but hope and wait | N |
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| But well I know they have gone from me | O |
| Into the silent depths of space | B |
| Across a vast uncharted sea | O |
| Whose shores I cannot trace | B |
John L. Stoddard
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