Ballade Of The Summer Term Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC A AB CBC ABABBCBC D BCBC| When Lent and Responsions are ended | A |
| When May with fritillaries waits | B |
| When the flower of the chestnut is splendid | A |
| When drags are at all of the gates | B |
| Those drags the philosopher 'slates' | B |
| With a scorn that is truly sublime | C |
| Life wins from the grasp of the Fates | B |
| Sweet hours and the fleetest of time | C |
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| When wickets are bowl'd and defended | A |
| When Isis is glad with 'the Eights ' | - |
| When music and sunset are blended | A |
| When Youth and the summer are mates | B |
| When Freshmen are heedless of 'Greats ' | - |
| And when note books are cover'd with rhyme | C |
| Ah these are the hours that one rates | B |
| Sweet hours and the fleetest of time | C |
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| When the brow of the Dean is unbended | A |
| At luncheons and mild tete a tetes | B |
| When the Tutor's in love nor offended | A |
| By blunders in tenses or dates | B |
| When bouquets are purchased of Bates | B |
| When the bells in their melody chime | C |
| When unheeded the Lecturer prates | B |
| Sweet hours and the fleetest of time | C |
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| ENVOY | D |
| - | |
| Reformers of Schools and of States | B |
| Is mirth so tremendous a crime | C |
| Ah spare what grim pedantry hates | B |
| Sweet hours and the fleetest of time | C |
Andrew Lang
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