After The Quarrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFBGBG HIHIJKJK LMLMNONO| So we who 've supped the self same cup | A |
| To night must lay our friendship by | B |
| Your wrath has burned your judgment up | A |
| Hot breath has blown the ashes high | B |
| You say that you are wronged ah well | C |
| I count that friendship poor at best | D |
| A bauble a mere bagatelle | C |
| That cannot stand so slight a test | D |
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| I fain would still have been your friend | E |
| And talked and laughed and loved with you | F |
| But since it must why let it end | E |
| The false but dies 't is not the true | F |
| So we are favored you and I | B |
| Who only want the living truth | G |
| It was not good to nurse the lie | B |
| 'T is well it died in harmless youth | G |
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| I go from you to night to sleep | H |
| Why what's the odds why should I grieve | I |
| I have no fund of tears to weep | H |
| For happenings that undeceive | I |
| The days shall come the days shall go | J |
| Just as they came and went before | K |
| The sun shall shine the streams shall flow | J |
| Though you and I are friends no more | K |
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| And in the volume of my years | L |
| Where all my thoughts and acts shall be | M |
| The page whereon your name appears | L |
| Shall be forever sealed to me | M |
| Not that I hate you over much | N |
| 'T is less of hate than love defied | O |
| Howe'er our hands no more shall touch | N |
| We 'll go our ways the world is wide | O |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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