School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDDB EFEFGFGFHHF I| If there is a vile pernicious | A |
| Wicked and degraded rule | B |
| Tending to debase the vicious | A |
| And corrupt the harmless fool | B |
| If there is a hateful habit | C |
| Making man a senseless tool | B |
| With the feelings of a rabbit | C |
| And the wisdom of a mule | B |
| It's the rule which inculcates | D |
| It's the habit which dictates | D |
| The wrong and sinful practice of going into school | B |
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| If there's anything improving | E |
| To an erring sinner's state | F |
| Which is useful in removing | E |
| All the ills of human fate | F |
| If there's any glorious custom | G |
| Which our faults can dissipate | F |
| And can casually thrust 'em | G |
| Out of sight and make us great | F |
| It's the plan by which we shirk | H |
| Half our matu ti nal work | H |
| The glorious institution of always being late | F |
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| James Kenneth Stephen | I |
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