Baccalaureate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA BCBDCDA year or two and grey Euripides | A |
And Horace and a Lydia or so | A |
And Euclid and the brush of Angelo | A |
Darwin on man Vergilius on bees | A |
The nose and Dialogues of Socrates | A |
Don Quixote Hudibras and Trinculo | A |
How worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go | A |
All shall be shard of broken memories | A |
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And there shall linger other magic things | A |
The fog that creeps in wanly from the sea | A |
The rotton harbor smell the mystery | A |
Of moonlit elms the flash of pigeon wings | A |
The sunny Green the old world peace that clings | A |
About the college yard where endlessly | A |
The dead go up and down These things shall be | A |
Enchantment of our heart's rememberings | A |
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And these are more than memories of youth | B |
Which earth's four winds of pain shall blow away | C |
These are earth's symbols of eternal truth | B |
Symbols of dream and imagery and flame | D |
Symbols of those same verities that play | C |
Bright through the crumbling gold of a great name | D |
Archibald Macleish
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