The First School Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE FGCG HHIH CJKJ CLHL HGMG NOIO CEIE IPQP RICI STRT| We are saddling Don and Laddie | A |
| Mid laughter and fun and noise | B |
| And maybe a sigh in passing | C |
| For vanished holiday joys | B |
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| And Mother is cutting lunches | D |
| There are only four as a rule | E |
| But to day another is added | A |
| For Baby is going to school | E |
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| You ll take her on Laddie between you | F |
| And hold her tight at the creek | G |
| And Mother parts with her darling | C |
| With a kiss on her dimpled cheek | G |
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| You needn t be fwightened Says baby | H |
| I ll be as wight as tan be | H |
| I LL give Sister our names and I ll tell her | I |
| That Mary Beronica s me | H |
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| Oh the breath of the summer morning | C |
| The gleam of dew on the grass | J |
| The incense of white gum blossoms | K |
| That strew our path as we pass | J |
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| While Mickey and Pat go racing | C |
| Over flats where the grass is green | L |
| But Eileen and I ride slowly | H |
| Guarding our treasure between | L |
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| She loves every mile of the journey | H |
| And shouts with delight at the creek | G |
| Where under the blossomed tea trees | M |
| The ripples play hide and seek | G |
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| And full of delight is the township | N |
| With its red roofed houses gay | O |
| Though Baby would love to linger | I |
| At the toy shover over the way | O |
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| But the nine o clock bell is sounding | C |
| From the door of the Convent school | E |
| Where our darling finds to her pleasure | I |
| Another kingdom to rule | E |
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| With a brand new desk in the corner | I |
| A pencil and slate of her own | P |
| In the sunshine of Sister s welcome | Q |
| She sits a queen on her throne | P |
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| But drowsily hums the insects | R |
| Round the bougainvillea flower | I |
| And drowsy and warm in the morning | C |
| So long ere the luncheon hour | I |
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| Kind Sister has drawn the blind down | S |
| Making a shady nook | T |
| Where Mary Beronica slumbers | R |
| With her golden head on her book | T |
Alice Guerin Crist
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