The Boys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDB EBEFFB DBDDDB| Where are they the friends of my childhood enchanted | A |
| The clear laughing eyes looking back in my own | B |
| And the warm chubby fingers my palms have so wanted | C |
| As when we raced over | D |
| Pink pastures of clover | D |
| And mocked the quail's whir and the bumblebee's drone | B |
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| Have the breezes of time blown their blossomy faces | E |
| Forever adrift down the years that are flown | B |
| Am I never to see them romp back to their places | E |
| Where over the meadow | F |
| In sunshine and shadow | F |
| The meadow larks trill and the bumblebees drone | B |
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| Where are they Ah dim in the dust lies the clover | D |
| The whippoorwill's call has a sorrowful tone | B |
| And the dove's I have wept at it over and over | D |
| I want the glad luster | D |
| Of youth and the cluster | D |
| Of faces asleep where the bumblebees drone | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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