A Rhyme Of Friends (in A Style Skeltonical) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDECCCAACCEEECC CCCFFCCCCCC EEGGCGGHHEE CEEIIIHHAACCJJKKLLLL AMMECCEEEHNNEEOOOCCListen now this time | A |
Shortly to my rhyme | A |
That herewith starts | B |
About certain kind hearts | B |
In those stricken parts | B |
That lie behind Calais | C |
Old crones and aged men | D |
And young children | E |
About the Picardais | C |
Who earned my thousand thanks | C |
Dwellers by the banks | C |
Of mournful Somme | A |
God keep me therefrom | A |
Until War ends | C |
These then are my friends | C |
Madame Averlant Lune | E |
From the town of Bethune | E |
Good Professeur la Brune | E |
From that town also | C |
He played the piccolo | C |
And left his locks to grow | C |
Dear Madame Hojdes | C |
Sempstress of Saint Fe | C |
With Jules and Susette | F |
And Antoinette | F |
Her children my sweethearts | C |
For whom I made darts | C |
Of paper to throw | C |
In their mimic show | C |
La guerre aux tranchees | C |
That was a pretty play | C |
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There was old Jacques Caron | E |
Of the hamlet Mailleton | E |
He let me look | G |
At his household book | G |
Comment vivre cent ans | C |
What cares I took | G |
To obey this wise book | G |
I who feared each hour | H |
Lest Death's cruel power | H |
On the poppied plain | E |
Might make cares vain | E |
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By Noeus les mines | C |
Lived old Adelphine | E |
Withered and clean | E |
She nodded and smiled | I |
And used me like a child | I |
How that old trot beguiled | I |
My leisure with her chatter | H |
Gave me a china platter | H |
Painted with Cherubim | A |
And mottoes on the rim | A |
But when instead of thanks | C |
I gave her francs | C |
How her pride was hurt | J |
She counted francs as dirt | J |
God knows she was not rich | K |
She called the Kaiser bitch | K |
She spat on the floor | L |
Cursing this Prussian war | L |
That she had known before | L |
Forty years past and more | L |
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There was also Tomi | A |
With looks sweet and free | M |
Who called me cher ami | M |
This orphan's age was nine | E |
His folk were in their graves | C |
Else they were slaves | C |
Behind the German line | E |
To terror and rapine | E |
O little friends of mine | E |
How kind and brave you were | H |
You smoothed away care | N |
When life was hard to bear | N |
And you old women and men | E |
Who gave me billets then | E |
How patient and great hearted | O |
Strangers though we started | O |
Yet friends we ever parted | O |
God bless you all now ends | C |
This homage to my friends | C |
Robert Graves
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