Tom Barbee's Pond. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFF A GGAAHHFF A IIJJKKFF| I | A |
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| O sweet are the memories when backward we gaze | B |
| Through the vista of years to our schoolboy days | B |
| When faces now vanished to the vision appear | C |
| And the music of voices long hushed we can hear | D |
| As together we romped where the school house stood | E |
| Or joyfully wended our way through the wood | E |
| Where placidly lay in the valley beyond | F |
| The moss covered waters of Tom Barbee's pond | F |
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| II | A |
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| Though scattered by Time o'er the face of the earth | G |
| And sorrow and anguish have succeeded to mirth | G |
| Still many there be whose mist bedewed eye | A |
| Looks longingly back while the breast heaves a sigh | A |
| To that far away time when together we played | H |
| In the school house yard or on Saturdays strayed | H |
| Where the knots in our sleeves were tied tight as a bond | F |
| As we splashed and we dived in Tom Barbee's pond | F |
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| III | A |
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| The pleasures of memory by Rogers were lined | I |
| With rhythm as sweet as in verse you will find | I |
| But could he e'er picture one half of the joys | J |
| We had when we wandered as barefooted boys | J |
| Through the woods and the fields and the meadows out there | K |
| With our sun blistered backs and the burrs in our hair | K |
| Or recall to the mind a remembrance more fond | F |
| Than bathing and swimming in Tom Barbee's pond | F |
George W. Doneghy
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