The Graduates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBC DDEF AGGHHAAIJIJKLMNAMOPQ QRRBBFF| I saw them beautiful in fair array upon Commencement Day | A |
| Lissome and lovely radiant and sweet | B |
| As cultured roses brought to their estate | C |
| By careful training Finished and complete | B |
| As teachers calculate | C |
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| They passed in maiden grace along the aisle | D |
| Leaving the chaste white sunlight of a smile | D |
| Upon the gazing throng | E |
| Musing I thought upon their place as mothers of the race | F |
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| Oh there are many actors who can play | A |
| Greatly great parts but rare indeed the soul | G |
| Who can be great when cast for some small role | G |
| Yet that is what the world most needs big hearts | H |
| That will shine forth and glorify poor parts | H |
| In this strange drama Life Do they | A |
| Who in full dress rehearsal pass to day | A |
| Before admiring eyes hold in their store | I |
| Those fine high principles which keep old Earth | J |
| From being only earth and make men more | I |
| Than just mere men How will they prove their worth | J |
| Of years of study Will they walk abroad | K |
| Decked with the plumage of dead bards of God | L |
| The glorious birds And shall the lamb unborn | M |
| Be slain on altars of their vanity | N |
| To some frail sister who has missed the way | A |
| Will they give Christ's compassion or man's scorn | M |
| And will clean manhood linked with honest love | O |
| The victor prove | P |
| When riches gained by greed dispute the claim | Q |
| Will they guard well a husband's home and name | Q |
| Or lean down from their altitudes to hear | R |
| The voice of flattery speak in the ear | R |
| Those lying platitudes which men repeat | B |
| To listening Self Conceit | B |
| Musing I thought upon their place as mothers of the race | F |
| As beautiful they passed in maiden grace | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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