To A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCD EFG EFG| Who prop thou ask'st in these bad days my mind | A |
| He much the old man who clearest souled of men | B |
| Saw The Wide Prospect and the Asian Fen | B |
| And Tmolus hill and Smyrna bay though blind | A |
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| Much he whose friendship I not long since won | C |
| That halting slave who in Nicopolis | D |
| Taught Arrian when Vespasian's brutal son | C |
| Cleared Rome of what most shamed him But be his | D |
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| My special thanks whose even balanced soul | E |
| From first youth tested up to extreme old age | F |
| Business could not make dull nor passion wild | G |
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| Who saw life steadily and saw it whole | E |
| The mellow glory of the Attic stage | F |
| Singer of sweet Colonus and its child | G |
Matthew Arnold
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