To A Republican Friend, 1848 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACBCBDE| God knows it I am with you If to prize | A |
| Those virtues priz'd and practis'd by too few | B |
| But priz'd but lov'd but eminent in you | B |
| Man's fundamental life if to despise | A |
| The barren optimistic sophistries | A |
| Of comfortable moles whom what they do | B |
| Teaches the limit of the just and true | B |
| And for such doing have no need of eyes | A |
| If sadness at the long heart wasting show | C |
| Wherein earth's great ones are disquieted | B |
| If thoughts not idle while before me flow | C |
| The armies of the homeless and unfed | B |
| If these are yours if this is what you are | D |
| Then am I yours and what you feel I share | E |
Matthew Arnold
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