To A Dead Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBD EFGFHIH CJCJKJK LALMNAN| And is it true indeed and must you go | A |
| Set out alone across that moorland track | B |
| No love avail though we have loved you so | A |
| No voice have any power to call you back | B |
| And losing hands stretch after you in vain | C |
| And all our eyes grow empty for your lack | B |
| Nor hands nor eyes know aught of you again | D |
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| Dear friend I shed no tear while yet you stayed | E |
| Nor vexed your soul with unavailing word | F |
| But you are gone and now can all be said | G |
| And tear and sigh too surely fall unheard | F |
| So long I kept for you an undimmed eye | H |
| Surely for grief this hour may well be spared | I |
| Though could you know I still must keep it dry | H |
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| For what can tears avail you the spring rain | C |
| That softly pelts the lattice as with flowers | J |
| Will of its tears a daisied counterpane | C |
| Weave for your rest and all its sound of showers | J |
| Makes of its sobbing low a cradle song | K |
| All tears avail but these salt tears of ours | J |
| These tears alone 'tis idle to prolong | K |
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| Yet must we shed them barren though they be | L |
| Though bloom nor burden answer as they flow | A |
| Though no sun shines that our sad eyes can see | L |
| To throw across their fall hope's radiant bow | M |
| Poor selfish tears we weep them not for him | N |
| 'Tis our own sorrow that we pity so | A |
| 'Tis our own loss that leaves our eyes so dim | N |
Richard Le Gallienne
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