The Fiftieth Birthday Of Agassiz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACA DEDE CCCC AFAF GHGH CBCC ICIC JKJK| MAY | A |
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| It was fifty years ago | B |
| In the pleasant month of May | A |
| In the beautiful Pays de Vaud | C |
| A child in its cradle lay | A |
| - | |
| And Nature the old nurse took | D |
| The child upon her knee | E |
| Saying Here is a story book | D |
| Thy Father has written for thee | E |
| - | |
| Come wander with me she said | C |
| Into regions yet untrod | C |
| And read what is still unread | C |
| In the manuscripts of God | C |
| - | |
| And he wandered away and away | A |
| With Nature the dear old nurse | F |
| Who sang to him night and day | A |
| The rhymes of the universe | F |
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| And whenever the way seemed long | G |
| Or his heart began to fail | H |
| She would sing a more wonderful song | G |
| Or tell a more marvellous tale | H |
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| So she keeps him still a child | C |
| And will not let him go | B |
| Though at times his heart beats wild | C |
| For the beautiful Pays de Vaud | C |
| - | |
| Though at times he hears in his dreams | I |
| The Ranz des Vaches of old | C |
| And the rush of mountain streams | I |
| From glaciers clear and cold | C |
| - | |
| And the mother at home says Hark | J |
| For his voice I listen and yearn | K |
| It is growing late and dark | J |
| And my boy does not return | K |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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