Friends Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CBDCE DFF FGF GHG HIH FIJI JFKJ LFMF MNM NAN ABA| WILLIAM Dewy Tranter Reuben Farmer Ledlow late at plough | A |
| Robert's kin and John's and Ned's | B |
| And the Squire and Lady Susan lie in Mellstock churchyard now | A |
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| Gone I call them gone for good that group of local hearts and | C |
| heads | B |
| Yet at mothy curfew tide | D |
| And at midnight when the noon heat breathes it back from walls and | C |
| leads | E |
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| They've a way of whispering to me fellow wight who yet abide | D |
| In the muted measured note | F |
| Of a ripple under archways or a lone cave's stillicide | F |
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| We have triumphed this achievement turns the bane to antidote | F |
| Unsuccesses to success | G |
| Many thought worn eves and morrows to a morrow free of thought | F |
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| No more need we corn and clothing feel of old terrestrial stress | G |
| Chill detraction stirs no sigh | H |
| Fear of death has even bygone us death gave all that we possess | G |
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| W D Ye mid burn the wold bass viol that I set such vallie by | H |
| Squire You may hold the manse in fee | I |
| You may wed my spouse my children's memory of me may decry | H |
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| Lady You may have my rich brocades my laces take each household | F |
| key | I |
| Ransack coffer desk bureau | J |
| Quiz the few poor treasures hid there con the letters kept by me | I |
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| Far Ye mid zell my favorite heifer ye mid let the charlock grow | J |
| Foul the grinterns give up thrift | F |
| Wife If ye break my best blue china children I sha'n't care or | K |
| ho | J |
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| All We've no wish to hear the tidings how the people's fortunes | L |
| shift | F |
| What your daily doings are | M |
| Who are wedded born divided if your lives beat slow or swift | F |
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| Curious not the least are we if our intents you make or mar | M |
| If you quire to our old tune | N |
| If the City stage still passes if the weirs still roar afar | M |
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| Thus with very gods' composure freed those crosses late and soon | N |
| Which in life the Trine allow | A |
| Why none witteth and ignoring all that haps beneath the moon | N |
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| William Dewy Tranter Reuben Farmer Ledlow late at plough | A |
| Robert's kin and John's and Ned's | B |
| And the Squire and Lady Susan murmur mildly to me now | A |
Thomas Hardy
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