The Old School-chum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DE FF GH II JJ KK LL MM AA| He puts the poem by to say | A |
| His eyes are not themselves to day | A |
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| A sudden glamour o'er his sight | B |
| A something vague indefinite | C |
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| An oft recurring blur that blinds | D |
| The printed meaning of the lines | E |
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| And leaves the mind all dusk and dim | F |
| In swimming darkness strange to him | F |
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| It is not childishness I guess | G |
| Yet something of the tenderness | H |
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| That used to wet his lashes when | I |
| A boy seems troubling him again | I |
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| The old emotion sweet and wild | J |
| That drove him truant when a child | J |
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| That he might hide the tears that fell | K |
| Above the lesson Little Nell | K |
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| And so it is he puts aside | L |
| The poem he has vainly tried | L |
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| To follow and as one who sighs | M |
| In failure through a poor disguise | M |
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| Of smiles he dries his tears to say | A |
| His eyes are not themselves to day | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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