The Student Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DEFFGH IFJJKF LMNOLM PQAARQ STUUST VNWWVO| So soon he fell the world will never know | A |
| What possibilities within him lay | B |
| What hopes irradiated his young life | C |
| With high ambition and with ardor rife | C |
| But ah the speedy summons came and so | A |
| He passed away | B |
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| So soon he fell there lie unfinished plans | D |
| By others misapplied misunderstood | E |
| And doors are barred that wait the master key | F |
| That wait his magic Open Sesame | F |
| To that assertive power that commands | G |
| The multitude | H |
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| Too soon he fell Was he not born to prove | I |
| What manhood and integrity might be | F |
| How one from all base elements apart | J |
| Might walk serene in purity of heart | J |
| His face the bright transparency of love | K |
| And sympathy | F |
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| The student ranks are closed there is no gap | L |
| Of other brave aspirants is no dearth | M |
| Prowess fidelity and truth go on | N |
| And few shall miss or mourn the student gone | O |
| Reposing in the all protecting lap | L |
| Of Mother Earth | M |
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| Too soon O God was it thy will that one | P |
| Of such endeavor and of noble mien | Q |
| Enrapt with living should thus early go | A |
| From all he loved and all who loved him so | A |
| Mid life's activities no longer known | R |
| No longer seen | Q |
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| Oh not for aye should agonizing lips | S |
| Quiver with questionings they dare not frame | T |
| Though in the dark penumbra of despair | U |
| Seemeth no light nor comfort anywhere | U |
| All things enshadowed as in dense eclipse | S |
| No more the same | T |
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| Could we but know in that Elysian lore | V |
| Of happy exercise still going on | N |
| Could we but know of glorious heights attained | W |
| Of his reward of mysteries explained | W |
| Ah but to know were to lament no more | V |
| The student gone | O |
Hattie Howard
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