The Old School List Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAE FGHGIEFE JKLKMEJE NFOFPENE QRSRTEUE VWXWGEVE YZA2ZB2EYE| In a wild moraine of forgotten books | A |
| On the glacier of years gone by | B |
| As I plied my rake for order's sake | C |
| There was one that caught my eye | B |
| And I sat by the shelf till I lost myself | D |
| And roamed in the crowded mist | E |
| And heard lost voices and saw lost looks | A |
| As I pored on an Old School List | E |
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| What a jumble of names there were some that I knew | F |
| As a brother is known to day | G |
| Gone I know not where nay I hardly care | H |
| For their places are full and they | G |
| What climes they have ranged how much they're changed | I |
| Time place and pursuits assist | E |
| In transforming them stay where you are adieu | F |
| You are all in the Old School List | E |
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| There are some who did nothing at school much since | J |
| And others much then since naught | K |
| They are middle aged men grown bald since then | L |
| Some have travelled and some have fought | K |
| And some have written and some are bitten | M |
| With strange new faiths desist | E |
| From tracking them broker or priest of prince | J |
| They are all in the Old School List | E |
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| There's a grave grey lawyer in King's Bench Walk | N |
| Whose clients are passing few | F |
| He seldom speaks in those lonely weeks | O |
| What on earth can he find to do | F |
| Well he stroked the eight what a splendid fate | P |
| And the Newcastle barely missed | E |
| A future Lord Chancellor so we'd talk | N |
| In the days of the old School List | E |
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| There were several duffers and several bores | Q |
| Whose faces I've half forgot | R |
| Whom I lived among when the world was young | S |
| And who talked no end of rot | R |
| Are they now little clerks who stroll in the Parks | T |
| Or scribble with grimy fist | E |
| Or rich little peers who hire Scotch moors | U |
| Well they're all in the old School List | E |
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| There were some who were certain to prosper and thrive | V |
| And certain to do no more | W |
| Who were capital chaps and tho' moderate saps | X |
| Would never stay in after four | W |
| Now day after day they are packed away | G |
| After being connubially kissed | E |
| To work in the city from ten to five | V |
| There they are in the old School List | E |
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| There were two good fellows I used to know | Y |
| How distant it all appears | Z |
| We played together in football weather | A2 |
| And messed together for years | Z |
| Now one of them's wed and the other's dead | B2 |
| So long that he's hardly missed | E |
| Save by us who messed with him years ago | Y |
| But we're all in the old School List | E |
James Kenneth Stephen
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