A Rhyme Of Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCDECCCAACCEEECC CCCFFCCCCGC EEHH HHIIEE CEEJJJIIAACCKKLLMMMM NNECCEEEIOOEEPPPCC| Listen 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 ' | G |
| That was a pretty play | C |
| - | |
| There was old Jacques Caron | E |
| Of the hamlet Mailleton | E |
| He let me look | H |
| At his household book | H |
| 'Comment vivre cent ans ' | - |
| What cares I took | H |
| To obey this wise book | H |
| I who feared each hour | I |
| Lest Death's cruel power | I |
| On the poppied plain | E |
| Might make cares vain | E |
| - | |
| By Noeus les mines | C |
| Lived old Adelphine | E |
| Withered and clean | E |
| She nodded and smiled | J |
| And used me like a child | J |
| How that old trot beguiled | J |
| My leisure with her chatter | I |
| Gave me a china platter | I |
| 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 | K |
| She counted francs as dirt | K |
| God knows she was not rich | L |
| She called the Kaiser bitch | L |
| She spat on the floor | M |
| Cursing this Prussian war | M |
| That she had known before | M |
| Forty years past and more | M |
| - | |
| There was also 'Tomi ' | - |
| With looks sweet and free | N |
| Who called me cher ami | N |
| 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 | I |
| You smoothed away care | O |
| When life was hard to bear | O |
| And you old women and men | E |
| Who gave me billets then | E |
| How patient and great hearted | P |
| Strangers though we started | P |
| Yet friends we ever parted | P |
| God bless you all now ends | C |
| This homage to my friends | C |
Robert Graves
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