The Mystic Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCEE FFD GAAGAGAAFFHI BCJBCJ KKFFLLMM ANOAAPP

I nothing did all yesterdayA
But listen to the singing rainB
On roof and weeping window paneB
And 'whiles I'd watch the flying sprayA
And smoking breakers in the bayA
Nothing but this did I all dayA
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Save turn anon to trim the fireC
With a new log and mark it roarD
And flame with yellow tongues for moreD
To feed its mystical desireC
No other comrades save these threeE
The fire the rain and the wild seaE
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All day from morn till night had IF
Yea and the wind with fitful cryF
Like a hound whining at the doorD
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Yet seemed it as to sleep I turnedG
Pausing a little while to prayA
That not mis spent had been the dayA
That I had somehow wisdom learnedG
From those wild waters in the bayA
And from the fire as it burnedG
And that the rain in some strange wayA
Had words of high import to sayA
And that the wind with fitful cryF
Did some immortal message tryF
Striving to make some meaning clearH
Important for my soul to hearI
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But what the meaning of the rainB
And what the wisdom of the fireC
And what the warning of the windJ
And what the sea would tell in vainB
My soul doth of itself enquireC
And yet a meaning too doth findJ
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For what am I that hears and seesK
But a strange brother of all theseK
That blindly move and wordless cryF
And I mysteriously IF
Answer in blood and bone and breathL
To what my gnomic kindred saithL
And as in me they all have partM
Translate their message to my heartM
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And know yet know not what they sayA
Know not yet know the fire's tongueN
And the rain's elegiac songO
And the white language of the sprayA
And all the wind meant yesterdayA
Yea wiser he when the day endsP
Who shared it with those four strange friendsP

Richard Le Gallienne



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