On Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDDEDD DFGHIJD| u sow with love and reap with thanksgiving | A |
| And he is your board and your fireside | B |
| For you come to him with your hunger and you seek him for peace | C |
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| When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind nor do you withhold the 'ay ' | - |
| And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart | D |
| For without words in friendship all thoughts all desires all expectations are born and shared with joy that is unacclaimed | D |
| When you part from your friend you grieve not | D |
| For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain | E |
| And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit | D |
| For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth and only the unprofitable is caught | D |
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| And let your best be for your friend | D |
| If he must know the ebb of your tide let him know its flood also | F |
| For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill | G |
| Seek him always with hours to live | H |
| For it is his to fill your need but not your emptiness | I |
| And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures | J |
| For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed | D |
Khalil Gibran
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