I Have A Dead Friend (verse Viii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BAB CAD EFG HIH JKJK| I have a dead friend who lately | A |
| Has begun to visit me | A |
| My friend sits down and sings to me | A |
| Sings to me so dolefully | A |
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| 'Upon the double winged bird's back | B |
| I am rowing through skies of blue | A |
| One of the bird's wings is black | B |
| The other gold of Cariboo ' | - |
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| 'The heart's a madman that abhors | C |
| One color as one too few | A |
| Either its love is two colors | D |
| Or else it is not love's hue ' | - |
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| 'There's a madwoman more savage | E |
| Than is the unhappy heart | F |
| She that sucks the blood in rage | G |
| And then a laughing would start ' | - |
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| 'A heart that has lost forever | H |
| The steadfast anchor of home | I |
| Sails like a ship in fould weather | H |
| And knows not to go or come ' | - |
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| If his anguish should betray him | J |
| The dead man will curse and weep | K |
| I pat his skull and I lay him | J |
| Lay the dead man down to sleep | K |
Jose Marti
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