Fear Not, Dear Friend, But Freely Live Your Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCBDEFDFEFEAR not dear friend but freely live your days | A |
Though lesser lives should suffer Such am I | B |
A lesser life that what is his of sky | B |
Gladly would give for you and what of praise | A |
Step without trouble down the sunlit ways | A |
We that have touched your raiment are made whole | C |
From all the selfish cankers of man's soul | C |
And we would see you happy dear or die | B |
Therefore be brave and therefore dear be free | D |
Try all things resolutely till the best | E |
Out of all lesser betters you shall find | F |
And we who have learned greatness from you we | D |
Your lovers with a still contented mind | F |
See you well anchored in some port of rest | E |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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