On Being Confined To School One Pleasant Morning In Spring, Written At The Age Of Thirteen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEDDDDFFGGHHDDIJKK DDLL MMNNCCDD| The morning sun's enchanting rays | A |
| Now call forth every songster's praise | A |
| Now the lark with upward flight | B |
| Gaily ushers in the light | B |
| While wildly warbling from each tree | C |
| The birds sing songs to Liberty | C |
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| But for me no songster sings | D |
| For me no joyous lark upsprings | D |
| For I confined in gloomy school | E |
| Must own the pedant's iron rule | E |
| And far from sylvan shades and bowers | D |
| In durance vile must pass the hours | D |
| There con the scholiast's dreary lines | D |
| Where no bright ray of genius shines | D |
| And close to rugged learning cling | F |
| While laughs around the jocund spring | F |
| How gladly would my soul forego | G |
| All that arithmeticians know | G |
| Or stiff grammarians quaintly teach | H |
| Or all that industry can reach | H |
| To taste each morn of all the joys | D |
| That with the laughing sun arise | D |
| And unconstrain'd to rove along | I |
| The bushy brakes and glens among | J |
| And woo the muse's gentle power | K |
| In unfrequented rural bower | K |
| But ah such heaven approaching joys | D |
| Will never greet my longing eyes | D |
| Still will they cheat in vision fine | L |
| Yet never but in fancy shine | L |
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| Oh that I were the little wren | M |
| That shrilly chirps from yonder glen | M |
| Oh far away I then would rove | N |
| To some secluded bushy grove | N |
| There hop and sing with careless glee | C |
| Hop and sing at liberty | C |
| And till death should stop my lays | D |
| Far from men would spend my days | D |
Henry Kirk White
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