My Education Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHJ KLKLMNMN| At school I sometimes read a book | A |
| And learned a lot of lessons | B |
| Some small amount of pains I took | A |
| And showed much acquiescence | C |
| In what my masters said good men | D |
| Yet after all I quite | E |
| Forgot the most of it but then | D |
| I learned to write | E |
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| At Lincoln's Inn I'd read a brief | F |
| Abstract a title study | G |
| Great paper piles beyond belief | F |
| Inelegant and muddy | G |
| The whole of these as time went by | H |
| I soon forgot indeed | I |
| I tried to yes but by and by | H |
| I learned to read | J |
| - | |
| By help of Latin Greek and Law | K |
| I now can write and read too | L |
| Then perish each forgotten saw | K |
| Each fact I do not need too | L |
| But still whichever way I turn | M |
| At one sad task I stick | N |
| I fear that I shall never learn | M |
| Arithmetic | N |
James Kenneth Stephen
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