Stanzas To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACC DEDE FGFG HEHE FIFI JKJK CLCM NOPQ RJRJ STST| AH think no more that Life's delusive joys | A |
| Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim | B |
| Or wound a heart that scarce a wish employs | A |
| For age to censure or discretion blame | B |
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| Tir'd of the world my weary mind recoils | C |
| From splendid scenes and transitory joys | A |
| From fell Ambition's false and fruitless toils | C |
| From hope that flatters and from bliss that cloys | C |
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| With THEE above the taunts of empty pride | D |
| The rigid frowns to youthful error given | E |
| Content in solitude my griefs I'll hide | D |
| Thy voice my counsellor thy smiles my Heaven | E |
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| With thee I'll hail the morn's returning ray | F |
| Or climb the dewy mountain bleak and cold | G |
| On the smooth lake observe the sun beams play | F |
| Or mark the infant flow'rs their buds unfold | G |
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| Pleas'd will I watch the glitt'ring queen of Night | H |
| Spread her white mantle o'er the face of Heaven | E |
| And from thy converse snatch the pure delight | H |
| By truth sublime to MENTAL feeling given | E |
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| And as the varying seasons glide away | F |
| This moral lesson shall my bosom learn | I |
| How TIME steals on while blissful hours decay | F |
| Like fleeting shadows NEVER to return | I |
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| And when I see thy warm unspotted mind | J |
| Torn with the wound of broken FRIENDSHIP'S dart | K |
| When sickness chills thy breast with pangs unkind | J |
| Or ruthless sorrow preys upon thy heart | K |
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| The task be MINE to soothe thee to repose | C |
| To check the sigh and wipe the trickling tear | L |
| Or with soft SYMPATHY to share thy woes | C |
| O proudest rapture of the soul sincere | M |
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| And ye who flutter thro' the vacant hour | N |
| Where tasteless Apathy's empoison'd wand | O |
| Arrests the vagrant sense with numbing pow'r | P |
| While vanquish'd REASON bows at her command | Q |
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| O say what bliss can transient Life bestow | R |
| What balm so grateful to the social mind | J |
| As FRIENDSHIP'S voice where gentle precepts flow | R |
| From the blest source of sentiment refin'd | J |
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| When FATE'S stern hand shall close my weeping eye | S |
| And seal at length my wand'ring spirit's doom | T |
| Oh may kind FRIENDSHIP catch my parting sigh | S |
| And cheer with HOPE the terrors of the TOMB | T |
Mary Darby Robinson
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