To The Walking-stick Of My Dead Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIJIKK LMLMNO PQPQRS TCTCUU| To my hand thou com'st at last | A |
| Wand of ebon tipped with gold | B |
| Often carried in the past | A |
| By a hand that now lies cold | B |
| In his grave beyond the sea | C |
| Many thousand miles from me | C |
| - | |
| Faithful staff for many years | D |
| Thou didst travel far and wide | E |
| Through a life of smiles and tears | F |
| Rarely absent from his side | E |
| As the light of day for him | G |
| Grew pathetically dim | G |
| - | |
| When with thee he walked abroad | H |
| Every crossing every stair | I |
| By thy touch was first explored | J |
| Ere his feet were planted there | I |
| With a sort of rhythmic beat | K |
| On the pavement of the street | K |
| - | |
| Hence when brought to face the gloom | L |
| Of a way to all unknown | M |
| Called to leave his sunlit room | L |
| For death's darkness quite alone | M |
| He instinctively again | N |
| Called to mind his faithful cane | O |
| - | |
| To whose grasp should it descend | P |
| Since with him it could not go | Q |
| Surely no one save a friend | P |
| Would receive and prize it so | Q |
| Thus to me wast thou bequeathed | R |
| To console a heart bereaved | S |
| - | |
| Friendship's gift belovd wand | T |
| Thou shalt likewise go with me | C |
| To the shore of the Beyond | T |
| To the dark untravelled sea | C |
| Only left upon the strand | U |
| When my bark puts forth from land | U |
John L. Stoddard
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