Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK DLDL MNMN OPOP QRQR RDRD RJRJ| When presses hard my load of care | A |
| And other friends from me depart | B |
| I want a friend my grief to share | A |
| With faithful speech and loving heart | B |
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| I want a friend of noble mind | C |
| Who loves me more than praise or pelf | D |
| Reproves my faults with spirit kind | C |
| And thinks of me as well as self | D |
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| A friend whose ear is ever closed | E |
| Against traducers' poison breath | F |
| And though in me be not disclosed | E |
| An equal love yet loves till death | F |
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| A friend who knows my weakness well | G |
| And ever seeks to calm my fears | H |
| If words should fail the storm to quell | G |
| Will soothe my fevered heart with tears | I |
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| A friend not moved by jealousy | J |
| Should I outrun him in life's race | K |
| And though I doubt still trusts in me | J |
| With loyal heart and cloudless face | K |
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| True friendship knows both joy and grief | D |
| The sweetest pleasure keenest pain | L |
| Its sharpest pangs are ever brief | D |
| Mere flitting clouds before the rain | L |
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| But soon the joy returns again | M |
| With bluer sky and brighter light | N |
| The grief proves but a narrow glen | M |
| All full of flowers though hid from sight | N |
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| And e'en in darkness we inhale | O |
| The fragrant odors love emits | P |
| Friendship like this can never fail | O |
| On love's strong throne its monarch sits | P |
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| True friendship is of greater worth | Q |
| Than words though they were solid gold | R |
| To all the glittering gems of earth | Q |
| I it prefer a thousandfold | R |
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| One Friend I have who knows my heart | R |
| And loves me with a changeless love | D |
| I love Him too nor death can part | R |
| Us two for we will love above | D |
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| A woman's love to His is faint | R |
| No brother cleaves as close as He | J |
| No seraph words could ever paint | R |
| The love this Friend now bears to me | J |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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