My Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FFG HHB IJ KLMNFJ OFPQRJ STUJ TDJ BVV| My friend I am not what I seem Seeming is but a garment I wear a | A |
| care woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee | B |
| from my negligence | C |
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| The 'I' in me my friend dwells in the house of silence and | D |
| therein it shall remain for ever more unperceived unapproachable | E |
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| I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I | F |
| do for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my | F |
| deeds thy own hopes in action | G |
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| When thou sayest 'The wind bloweth eastward ' I say 'Aye it doth | H |
| blow eastward' for I would not have thee know that my mind doth | H |
| not dwell upon the wind but upon the sea | B |
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| Thou canst not understand my seafaring thoughts nor would I have | I |
| thee understand I would be at sea alone | J |
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| When it is day with thee my friend it is night with me yet even | K |
| then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of | L |
| the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley for thou | M |
| canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating | N |
| against the stars and I fain would not have thee hear or see I | F |
| would be with night alone | J |
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| When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell even then | O |
| thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf 'My companion my | F |
| comrade ' and I call back to thee 'My comrade my companion' for | P |
| I would not have thee see my Hell The flame would burn thy eyesight | Q |
| and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils And I love my Hell too | R |
| well to have thee visit it I would be in Hell alone | J |
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| Thou lovest Truth and Beauty and Righteousness and I for thy sake | S |
| say it is well and seemly to love these things But in my heart | T |
| I laught at thy love Yet I would not have thee see my laughter | U |
| I would laugh alone | J |
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| My friend thou art good and cautious and wise nay thou art | T |
| perfect and I too speak with thee wisely and cautiously And | D |
| yet I am mad But I mask my madness I would be mad alone | J |
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| My friend thou art not my friend but how shall I make thee | B |
| understand My path is not thy path yet together we walk hand | V |
| in hand | V |
Khalil Gibran
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