My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFGGH IJKLFM NOPBQ RST U VWDXHVY ZA2B2XC2D2 E2 F2G2V| My friends without shields walk on the target | A |
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| It is late the windows are breaking | B |
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| My friends without shoes leave | C |
| What they love | D |
| Grief moves among them as a fire among | E |
| Its bells | F |
| My friends without clocks turn | G |
| On the dial they turn | G |
| They part | H |
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| My friends with names like gloves set out | I |
| Bare handed as they have lived | J |
| And nobody knows them | K |
| It is they that lay the wreaths at the milestones it is their | L |
| Cups that are found at the wells | F |
| And are then chained up | M |
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| My friends without feet sit by the wall | N |
| Nodding to the lame orchestra | O |
| Brotherhood it says on the decorations | P |
| My friend without eyes sits in the rain smiling | B |
| With a nest of salt in his hand | Q |
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| My friends without fathers or houses hear | R |
| Doors opening in the darkness | S |
| Whose halls announce | T |
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| Behold the smoke has come home | U |
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| My friends and I have in common | V |
| The present a wax bell in a wax belfry | W |
| This message telling of | D |
| Metals this | X |
| Hunger for the sake of hunger this owl in the heart | H |
| And these hands one | V |
| For asking one for applause | Y |
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| My friends with nothing leave it behind | Z |
| In a box | A2 |
| My friends without keys go out from the jails it is night | B2 |
| They take the same road they miss | X |
| Each other they invent the same banner in the dark | C2 |
| They ask their way only of sentries too proud to breathe | D2 |
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| At dawn the stars on their flag will vanish | E2 |
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| The water will turn up their footprints and the day will rise | F2 |
| Like a monument to my | G2 |
| Friends the forgotten | V |
William Stanley Merwin
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