To A Dead Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD BBBB BEBE| It is as if a silver chord | A |
| Were suddenly grown mute | B |
| And life's song with its rhythm warred | B |
| Against a silver lute | B |
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| It is as if a silence fell | C |
| Where bides the garnered sheaf | D |
| And voices murmuring It is well | C |
| Are stifled by our grief | D |
| - | |
| It is as if the gloom of night | B |
| Had hid a summer's day | B |
| And willows sighing at their plight | B |
| Bent low beside the way | B |
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| For he was part of all the best | B |
| That Nature loves and gives | E |
| And ever more on Memory's breast | B |
| He lies and laughs and lives | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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