To An English Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCC AADDEEFFGG AAHHIIJJ| THE seed that wasteful autumn cast | A |
| To waver on its stormy blast | A |
| Long o'er the wintry desert tost | A |
| Its living germ has never lost | A |
| Dropped by the weary tempest's wing | B |
| It feels the kindling ray of spring | B |
| And starting from its dream of death | C |
| Pours on the air its perfumed breath | C |
| - | |
| So parted by the rolling flood | A |
| The love that springs from common blood | A |
| Needs but a single sunlit hour | D |
| Of mingling smiles to bud and flower | D |
| Unharmed its slumbering life has flown | E |
| From shore to shore from zone to zone | E |
| Where summer's falling roses stain | F |
| The tepid waves of Pontchartrain | F |
| Or where the lichen creeps below | G |
| Katahdin's wreaths of whirling snow | G |
| - | |
| Though fiery sun and stiffening cold | A |
| May change the fair ancestral mould | A |
| No winter chills no summer drains | H |
| The life blood drawn from English veins | H |
| Still bearing wheresoe'er it flows | I |
| The love that with its fountain rose | I |
| Unchanged by space unwronged by time | J |
| From age to age from clime to clime | J |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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