The Best School Of All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEFFFE GHGHIJIJ GGGGKGKG GLGLGMGN AEAEGGGE| It's good to see the school we knew | A |
| The land of youth and dream | B |
| To greet again the rule we knew | A |
| Before we took the stream | B |
| Though long we've missed the sight of her | C |
| Our hearts may not forget | D |
| We've lost the old delight of her | C |
| We keep her honour yet | D |
| - | |
| We'll honour yet the school we knew | A |
| The best school of all | E |
| We'll honour yet the rule we knew | A |
| Till the last bell call | E |
| For working days or holidays | F |
| And glad or melancholy days | F |
| They were great days and jolly days | F |
| At the best school of all | E |
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| The stars and sounding vanities | G |
| That half the crowd bewitch | H |
| What are they but inanities | G |
| To him that treads the pitch | H |
| And where's the welth I'm wondering | I |
| Could buy the cheers that roll | J |
| When the last charge goes thundering | I |
| Towards the twilight goal | J |
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| Then men that tanned the hide of us | G |
| Our daily foes and friends | G |
| They shall not lose their pride of us | G |
| Howe'er the journey ends | G |
| Their voice to us who sing of it | K |
| No more its message bears | G |
| But the round world shall ring of it | K |
| And all we are be theirs | G |
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| To speak of fame a venture is | G |
| There's little here can bide | L |
| But we may face the centuries | G |
| And dare the deepending tide | L |
| for though the dust that's part of us | G |
| To dust again be gone | M |
| Yet here shall beat the heart of us | G |
| The school we handed on | N |
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| We'll honour yet the school we knew | A |
| The best school of all | E |
| We'll honour yet the rule we knew | A |
| Till the last bell call | E |
| For working days or holidays | G |
| And glad or melancholy days | G |
| They were great days and jolly days | G |
| At the best school of all | E |
Henry Newbolt
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