Our Boyhood Haunts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFEFGG ABAHHBBIJBIKLK| Ho I'm going back to where | A |
| We were youngsters Meet me there | A |
| Dear old barefoot chum and we | B |
| Will be as we used to be | B |
| Lawless rangers up and down | C |
| The old creek beyond the town | C |
| Little sunburnt gods at play | D |
| Just as in that far away | D |
| Water nymphs all unafraid | E |
| Shall smile at us from the brink | F |
| Of the old millrace and wade | E |
| Tow'rd us as we kneeling drink | F |
| At the spring our boyhood knew | G |
| Pure and clear as morning dew | G |
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| And as we are rising there | A |
| Doubly dow'rd to hear and see | B |
| We shall thus be made aware | A |
| Of an eerie piping heard | H |
| High above the happy bird | H |
| In the hazel And then we | B |
| Just across the creek shall see | B |
| Hah the goaty rascal Pan | I |
| Hoof it o'er the sloping green | J |
| Mad with his own melody | B |
| Aye and bless the beasty man | I |
| Stamping from the grassy soil | K |
| Bruised scents of fleur de lis | L |
| Boneset mint and pennyroyal | K |
James Whitcomb Riley
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