My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCBCDD EFEFDD GHGHDD FEFEDD IJIJDD KEKEDD LMLMDD GDGDDD EEEEDD ENENDD EOEODD DADADD PJPJDD| My never failing friends are they | A |
| With whom I converse day by day | A |
| Southey | A |
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| Some to and fro for converse flit | B |
| And on their friends intrude | C |
| Or shun society and sit | B |
| In cheerless solitude | C |
| But I can sit when night descends | D |
| At home among a thousand friends | D |
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| The garish day is left behind | E |
| The scurry and the din | F |
| The hours of toil are out of mind | E |
| As if they had not been | F |
| No thought of morrow that impends | D |
| Comes in between me and my friends | D |
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| We reck not of the flight of time | G |
| To them a subject strange | H |
| They pass their days in a sublime | G |
| Indifference to change | H |
| Theirs is the life that never ends | D |
| Immortal beings are my friends | D |
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| They toil not neither do they spin | F |
| Yet none is meanly drest | E |
| And some are clad in costly skin | F |
| And some in silken vest | E |
| And everyone who sees commends | D |
| The decent habits of my friends | D |
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| And some are short and some are tall | I |
| Some portly and some spare | J |
| Here is a group of pygmies small | I |
| A Tom Thumb family there | J |
| A Brobdingnagian row extends | D |
| The best informed among my friends | D |
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| Wot one among them all is low | K |
| A fellow to be spurned | E |
| And none is ever rude although | K |
| Their backs are often turned | E |
| No observation that offends | D |
| Is dropped by any of my friends | D |
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| And some are steeped in classic lore | L |
| Some brim with wisdom sage | M |
| And some can trace a far off shore | L |
| Or paint a former age | M |
| And each his talent freely lends | D |
| For talented are all my friends | D |
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| Some tell of deeds and lives sublime | G |
| And triumphs over foes | D |
| Some weave a spell of lofty rhyme | G |
| Some charm with stately prose | D |
| And here and there a mind unbends | D |
| Familiarly among my friends | D |
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| In diction antiquated quaint | E |
| Or with a modern sound | E |
| They speak their thoughts without restraint | E |
| Although they're mostly bound | E |
| And cease to speak when none attends | D |
| A valued feature of my friends | D |
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| Although they shun the thoughtless crowd | E |
| The frivolous disdain | N |
| Their titles have not made them proud | E |
| Nor all their pages vain | N |
| No common mortal less pretends | D |
| None can be opener than my friends | D |
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| They care not that they've all been cut | E |
| A number by myself | O |
| And often taken down and put | E |
| As often on the shelf | O |
| My estimation makes amends | D |
| For such ill treatment of my friends | D |
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| An ever fresh unfailing source | D |
| Of thought and sympathy | A |
| What hours of goodly intercourse | D |
| They have afforded me | A |
| I cannot doubt that heaven still sends | D |
| Us angels while I have my friends | D |
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| If he who sits at home in gloom | P |
| Or rushes here and there | J |
| Will put a bookshelf in his room | P |
| And furnish it with care | J |
| He'll bless the evenings that he spends | D |
| With such companions as my friends | D |
W. M. Mackeracher
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