Care-free Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJI KLMLNOMOPCQC RSTSUCVCWXYX EHZHA2TB2TB2C2SC2

The skies are blue and the sun is outA
and the grass is green and softB
And the old charm's back in the apple treeC
and it calls a boy aloftD
And the same low voice that the old don't hearE
but the care free youngsters doF
Is calling them to the fields and streamsG
and the joys that once I knewF
And if youth be wild desire for playH
and care is the mark of menI
Beneath the skin that Time has tannedJ
I'm a madcap youngster thenI
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Far richer than king with his crown of goldK
and his heavy weight of careL
Is the sunburned boy with his stone bruised feetM
and his tousled shock of hairL
For the king can hear but the cry of hateN
or the sickly sound of praiseO
And lost to him are the voices sweetM
that called in his boyhood daysO
Far better than ruler with pomp and powerP
and riches is it to beC
The urchin gay in his tattered clothesQ
that is climbing the apple treeC
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Oh once I heard all the calls that comeR
to the quick glad ears of boysS
And a certain spot on the river bankT
told me of its many joysS
And certain fields and certain treesU
were loyal friends to meC
And I knew the birds and I owned a dogV
and we both could hear and seeC
Oh never from tongues of men have droppedW
such messages wholly gladX
As the things that live in the great outdoorsY
once told to a little ladX
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And I'm sorry for him who cannot hearE
what the tall trees have to sayH
Who is deaf to the call of a running streamZ
and the lanes that lead to playH
The boy that shins up the faithful elmA2
or sprawls on a river bankT
Is more richly blessed with the joys of lifeB2
than any old man of rankT
For youth is the golden time of lifeB2
and this battered old heart of mineC2
Beats fast to the march of its old time joysS
when the sun begins to shineC2

Edgar Albert Guest



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