Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JKJK LMLN| Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven | A |
| The noble mind's delight and pride | B |
| To men and angels only given | A |
| To all the lower world denied | B |
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| While love unknown among the bless'd | C |
| Parent of thousand wild desires | D |
| The savage and the human breast | C |
| Torments alike with raging fires | D |
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| With bright but oft destructive gleam | E |
| Alike o'er all his lightnings fly | F |
| Thy lambent glories only beam | E |
| Around the favourites of the sky | F |
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| Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys | G |
| On fools and villains ne'er descend | H |
| In vain for thee the tyrant sighs | I |
| And hugs a flatterer for a friend | H |
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| Directness of the brave and just | J |
| Oh guide us through life's darksome way | K |
| And let the tortures of mistrust | J |
| On selfish bosoms only prey | K |
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| Nor shall thine ardours cease to glow | L |
| When souls to peaceful climes remove | M |
| What raised our virtue here below | L |
| Shall aid our happiness above | N |
Samuel Johnson
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