The Boy That Was Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDFGHG IFJ FAKAGLML NFFFIGGGOPFQ| gray | A |
| And a fellow realizes that he's wandering far | B |
| away | A |
| From the pleasures of his boyhood and his | C |
| youth and never more | D |
| Will know the joy of laughter as he did in days | E |
| of yore | D |
| Oh it's then he starts to thinking of a stubby | F |
| little lad | G |
| With a face as brown as berries and a soul | H |
| supremely glad | G |
| - | |
| When a gray haired dreamer wanders down the | I |
| lanes of memory | F |
| And forgets the living present for the time of | J |
| 'used to be ' | - |
| He takes off his shoes and stockings and he | F |
| throws his coat away | A |
| And he's free from all restrictions save the rules | K |
| of manly play | A |
| He may be in richest garments but bareheaded | G |
| in the sun | L |
| He forgets his proud successes and the riches | M |
| he has won | L |
| - | |
| Oh there's not a man alive but that would give | N |
| his all to be | F |
| The stubby little fellow that in dreamland he | F |
| can see | F |
| And the splendors that surround him and the | I |
| joys about him spread | G |
| Only seem to rise to taunt him with the boyhood | G |
| that has fled | G |
| When the hair about the temples starts to show | O |
| Time's silver stain | P |
| Then the richest man that's living yearns to be | F |
| a boy again | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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