The Lanes Of Boyhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEECC FFGGHH IIJJKL| DOWN the lanes of boyhood let me go once more | A |
| Let me tread the paths of youth that I have trod before | A |
| Let me wander once again where the skies are bright | B |
| Freckled face and tanned of leg roadways of delight | B |
| Picking checkerberries as I laze along the way | C |
| Hunting for the robin's nest dozing in the hay | C |
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| Down the lanes of boyhood there are joys untold | D |
| Hidden caves of precious things stores of yellow gold | D |
| Friends that only boyhood knows birds and trees and flowers | E |
| Nodding to the youngsters 'Howdy do' in morning hours | E |
| Skies that bend above them in the gentlest sort of way | C |
| Fleecy clouds that seem to stop and watch them at their play | C |
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| Down the lanes of boyhood hear their laughter ring | F |
| See the tousled army marching straightway to a spring | F |
| Flat upon the ground they fall just to get a drink | G |
| Here's a thirst emporium where glasses never clink | G |
| No glittering place of red and gold the passer by to snare | H |
| Yet rich with Nature's coloring a thousand times more fair | H |
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| Down the lanes of boyhood where innocence abounds | I |
| A medley gay of colors a revelry of sounds | I |
| Where hearts are never broken and wrong is never known | J |
| Where sorrow never enters and no one weeps alone | J |
| And yet we never can return when once we've journeyed on | K |
| Old age is ever wishing for the joys forever gone | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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