An Instructor's Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQIRS TUIV| Many decades after graduation | A |
| the students sneak back onto | B |
| the school grounds at night | C |
| and within the pane lit windows | D |
| catch me their teacher at the desk | E |
| or blackboard cradling a chalk | F |
| someone has erased their youth | G |
| and as they crouch closer to see | H |
| more it grows darker and quieter | I |
| than they have known in their lives | J |
| the lesson never learned surrounds | K |
| them why have they come Is | L |
| there any more to memorize now | M |
| at the end than there was then | N |
| What is it they peer at through shades | O |
| of time to hear X times X repeated | P |
| my vain efforts to corner a room's | Q |
| snickers Do they mock me Forever | I |
| Out there my past has risen in | R |
| the eyes of all my former pupils but | S |
| I wonder if behind them others | T |
| younger and younger stretch away | U |
| to a world where dawn will never | I |
| ring its end its commencement bell | V |
Bill Knott
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