The Mystic Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCEE FFD GAAGAGAAFFHI BCJBCJ KKFFLLMM ANOAAPP| I nothing did all yesterday | A |
| But listen to the singing rain | B |
| On roof and weeping window pane | B |
| And 'whiles I'd watch the flying spray | A |
| And smoking breakers in the bay | A |
| Nothing but this did I all day | A |
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| Save turn anon to trim the fire | C |
| With a new log and mark it roar | D |
| And flame with yellow tongues for more | D |
| To feed its mystical desire | C |
| No other comrades save these three | E |
| The fire the rain and the wild sea | E |
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| All day from morn till night had I | F |
| Yea and the wind with fitful cry | F |
| Like a hound whining at the door | D |
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| Yet seemed it as to sleep I turned | G |
| Pausing a little while to pray | A |
| That not mis spent had been the day | A |
| That I had somehow wisdom learned | G |
| From those wild waters in the bay | A |
| And from the fire as it burned | G |
| And that the rain in some strange way | A |
| Had words of high import to say | A |
| And that the wind with fitful cry | F |
| Did some immortal message try | F |
| Striving to make some meaning clear | H |
| Important for my soul to hear | I |
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| But what the meaning of the rain | B |
| And what the wisdom of the fire | C |
| And what the warning of the wind | J |
| And what the sea would tell in vain | B |
| My soul doth of itself enquire | C |
| And yet a meaning too doth find | J |
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| For what am I that hears and sees | K |
| But a strange brother of all these | K |
| That blindly move and wordless cry | F |
| And I mysteriously I | F |
| Answer in blood and bone and breath | L |
| To what my gnomic kindred saith | L |
| And as in me they all have part | M |
| Translate their message to my heart | M |
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| And know yet know not what they say | A |
| Know not yet know the fire's tongue | N |
| And the rain's elegiac song | O |
| And the white language of the spray | A |
| And all the wind meant yesterday | A |
| Yea wiser he when the day ends | P |
| Who shared it with those four strange friends | P |
Richard Le Gallienne
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