The Friend's Shadow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DDDDEFEFAGAGEBEBAHAH BEBEIAAJDDAAAKAKDLD MNMNEAEAODOD| Sunt aliquid manes letum non omnia finit | A |
| Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos | B |
| PROPERTIUS | B |
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| To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped me | D |
| It look'd as if interr'd beneath a leaden sea | D |
| And gathering round our bark the halcyon's music led me | D |
| While all the crew rejoiced in their sweet melody | D |
| The dancing surge the evening breezes falling | E |
| And through the sails and shrouds those breezes whistling thrill | F |
| And to the watch the active helmsman calling | E |
| The watch who midst the roar sleeps tranquilly and still | F |
| All seem'd to rock itself to gentle thought | A |
| Like an enchanted one I from the mast look'd forth | G |
| And through the night and through the mist I sought | A |
| I sought the star beloved of my domestic north | G |
| Then into memory melted every feeling | E |
| My soul had sanctified my home of joy and peace | B |
| And the sea raging and the zephyrs gently stealing | E |
| Cover'd my eyelids o'er with self forgetfulness | B |
| Then dreams with other dreams were blended | A |
| And lo there stood was it a dream the form | H |
| Of that dear friend who his career had ended | A |
| Nobly amidst the thundering battle storm | H |
| He stood upon the mist and smiled his face | B |
| Fresh as the morn and bloodless shining | E |
| Like the young spring in gaiety and grace | B |
| Even as an angel from high heaven declining | E |
| 'Comrade of better time and is it thou | I |
| And is it thou ' I cried 'thou hero bright | A |
| Did I not in the fury of the fight | A |
| Attend thee and when thou hadst fallen below | J |
| Make thy new grave and on a neighbouring tree | D |
| Write with my sword thy feats of bravery | D |
| And follow'd thy cold ashes to their bed | A |
| And hallow'd it with prayers and with tears watered | A |
| Speak unforgotten one speak was it a deceit | A |
| Is all that's past a dream a cheating dream | K |
| A dream that corpse a dream that grave that sheet | A |
| Wrapt round thee were they not did they but seem | K |
| O but one word let that tongue's melody | D |
| Yet sweetly fall on my transported ear | L |
| O unforgotten one stretch out to me | D |
| Thy old right hand of friendship stretch it here ' | - |
| I sprung towards him Oh the mists had dimm'd my eye | M |
| He vanish'd like a shade a lock of airy smoke | N |
| Dispersed in the wide azure of the sky | M |
| And I arousing from my dream awoke | N |
| Beneath the wing of stillness all was sleeping | E |
| The very winds the very waves at rest | A |
| And scarce a breath upon the sea was creeping | E |
| The pale moon swam along upon the white cloud's breast | A |
| But I was troubled peace had left my soul | O |
| I stretch'd my hands tow'rds him whom I no more could see | D |
| I called on him whom I could not control | O |
| On thee belov'd one best of friends on thee | D |
Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov
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