To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHICIC CCCCJHBH| ADAM because on the mind's roads | A |
| Your mouth is always in a hurry | B |
| Because you know odes | A |
| And ways to make a curry | B |
| Because you fall in love with words | C |
| And whistle beauty forth to kiss them | D |
| And blow the tails from China birds | C |
| Whilst I continually miss them | D |
| Because you top my angry best | E |
| At billiards fugues or pulling corks out | F |
| And whisk a fritter from its nest | E |
| Before there's time to hand the forks out | F |
| Because you saw the Romans wink | G |
| Because your senses dance to metre | H |
| Because no matter what I drink | G |
| You'll hold at least another litre | H |
| Because you've got a gipsy's eye | I |
| That melts the rage of catamountains | C |
| And metaphors that pass me by | I |
| Burst from your lips in lovely fountains | C |
| Because you've bitten the harsh foods | C |
| Of life grabbed every dish that passes | C |
| And walked amongst the multitudes | C |
| Without the curse of looking glasses | C |
| Because I burn the selfsame flame | J |
| No falls of dirty earth may smother | H |
| Oh in your Abbey of Th l me | B |
| Enlist me as a serving brother | H |
Kenneth Slessor
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