A Broken Friendship Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDDDEDEFFEDEDD| Alas they had been friends in youth | A |
| But whispering tongues can poison truth | A |
| And constancy lives in realms above | B |
| And life is thorny and youth is vain | C |
| And to be wroth with one we love | B |
| Doth work like madness in the brain | C |
| And thus is chanced as I divine | D |
| With Roland and Sir Leoline | D |
| Each spake words of high disdain | D |
| And insult to his heart's best brother | E |
| They parted ne'er to meet again | D |
| But never either found another | E |
| To free the hollow heart from painting | F |
| They stood aloof the scars remaining | F |
| Like cliffs which had been rent asunder | E |
| A dreary see now flows between | D |
| But neither heat nor frost nor thunder | E |
| Shall wholly do away I ween | D |
| The marks of that which once hath been | D |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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