The Annex Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCDDDEEEFFFGGG HHHIII E| Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage | A |
| High halls do not a College make nor book lined shelves a sage | A |
| So might I follow haltingly these olden words to show | B |
| That even in this newer home the Annex may not know | B |
| A greater zeal for learning than the old house could bestow | B |
| But comparisons are odious so I'll merely try to say | C |
| That cherished deep within the hearts of many here today | C |
| Is the memory of that early home in the classic Appian Way | C |
| There first did the young Annex whose real Christian name | D |
| Contains as many syllables as it has liens on fame | D |
| Win laurels even brighter than its friends had hoped to claim | D |
| And there too in their search for intellectual recreation | E |
| Its students formed the short livedAppian Way Association | E |
| Of which this later Club is but an Idler imitation | E |
| Just where the interloper dwelt was long a mystery | F |
| In the past to Harvard students and to townsmen equally | F |
| Till they cried There is no Annex believe we only what we see | F |
| Now the Annex and its mission every year are better known | G |
| From the smallest of beginnings strong and powerful it has grown | G |
| Only Harvard Freshmen speak of it in supercilious tone | G |
| Although custom would forbid us as we are passing near | H |
| To salute the ancient building with a rousing Annex cheer | H |
| We need no sign like this to prove that still we hold it dear | H |
| Now the students who have profited by their foreseeing care | I |
| Fondly thank the Annex founders who knew not the word despair | I |
| Its best home was the hearts of those who planned the structure fair | I |
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| Read at a College celebration | E |
Helen Leah Reed
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