A Rhyme Of Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDECCCAACCEEECC CCCFFCCCCGC EEHH HHIIEE CEEJJJIIAACCKKLLMMMM NNECCEEEIOOEEPPPCC

Listen now this timeA
Shortly to my rhymeA
That herewith startsB
About certain kind heartsB
In those stricken partsB
That lie behind CalaisC
Old crones and aged menD
And young childrenE
About the PicardaisC
Who earned my thousand thanksC
Dwellers by the banksC
Of mournful SommeA
God keep me therefromA
Until War endsC
These then are my friendsC
Madame Averlant LuneE
From the town of BethuneE
Good Professeur la BruneE
From that town alsoC
He played the piccoloC
And left his locks to growC
Dear Madame HojdesC
Sempstress of Saint FeC
With Jules and SusetteF
And AntoinetteF
Her children my sweetheartsC
For whom I made dartsC
Of paper to throwC
In their mimic showC
'La guerre aux tranchees 'G
That was a pretty playC
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There was old Jacques CaronE
Of the hamlet MailletonE
He let me lookH
At his household bookH
'Comment vivre cent ans '-
What cares I tookH
To obey this wise bookH
I who feared each hourI
Lest Death's cruel powerI
On the poppied plainE
Might make cares vainE
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By Noeus les minesC
Lived old AdelphineE
Withered and cleanE
She nodded and smiledJ
And used me like a childJ
How that old trot beguiledJ
My leisure with her chatterI
Gave me a china platterI
Painted with CherubimA
And mottoes on the rimA
But when instead of thanksC
I gave her francsC
How her pride was hurtK
She counted francs as dirtK
God knows she was not richL
She called the Kaiser bitchL
She spat on the floorM
Cursing this Prussian warM
That she had known beforeM
Forty years past and moreM
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There was also 'Tomi '-
With looks sweet and freeN
Who called me cher amiN
This orphan's age was nineE
His folk were in their gravesC
Else they were slavesC
Behind the German lineE
To terror and rapineE
O little friends of mineE
How kind and brave you wereI
You smoothed away careO
When life was hard to bearO
And you old women and menE
Who gave me billets thenE
How patient and great heartedP
Strangers though we startedP
Yet friends we ever partedP
God bless you all now endsC
This homage to my friendsC

Robert Graves



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