To My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDC EFG CCDC HIC DCDC JJC BBDC KKLLMMDC NNO PPDC OOQRDCDC SSTTCCD UUVVWWDC| Laugh my Friends and without blame | A |
| Lightly quit what lightly came | A |
| Rich to morrow as to day | B |
| Spend as madly as you may | B |
| I with little land to stir | C |
| Am the exacter labourer | C |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| But my Youth reminds me 'Thou | E |
| Hast liv'd light as these live now | F |
| As these are thou too wert such | G |
| Much hast had hast squander'd much ' | - |
| Fortune's now less frequent heir | C |
| Ah I husband what's grown rare | C |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| Young I said 'A face is gone | H |
| If too hotly mus'd upon | I |
| And our best impressions are | C |
| Those that do themselves repair ' | - |
| Many a face I then let by | D |
| Ah is faded utterly | C |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| Marguerite says 'As last year went | J |
| So the coming year'll be spent | J |
| Some day next year I shall be | C |
| Entering heedless kiss'd by thee ' | - |
| Ah I hope yet once away | B |
| What may chain us who can say | B |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| Paint that lilac kerchief bound | K |
| Her soft face her hair around | K |
| Tied under the archest chin | L |
| Mockery ever ambush'd in | L |
| Let the fluttering fringes streak | M |
| All her pale sweet rounded cheek | M |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| Paint that figure's pliant grace | N |
| As she towards me lean'd her face | N |
| Half refus'd and half resign'd | O |
| Murmuring 'Art thou still unkind ' | - |
| Many a broken promise then | P |
| Was new made to break again | P |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| Paint those eyes so blue so kind | O |
| Eager tell tales of her mind | O |
| Paint with their impetuous stress | Q |
| Of inquiring tenderness | R |
| Those frank eyes where deep doth lie | D |
| An angelic gravity | C |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
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| What my Friends these feeble lines | S |
| Show you say my love declines | S |
| To paint ill as I have done | T |
| Proves forgetfulness begun | T |
| Time's gay minions pleas'd you see | C |
| Time your master governs me | C |
| Pleas'd you mock the fruitless cry | D |
| 'Quick thy tablets Memory ' | - |
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| Ah too true Time's current strong | U |
| Leaves us true to nothing long | U |
| Yet if little stays with man | V |
| Ah retain we all we can | V |
| If the clear impression dies | W |
| Ah the dim remembrance prize | W |
| Ere the parting hour go by | D |
| Quick thy tablets Memory | C |
Matthew Arnold
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