To Almon Keefer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGH IIJJKKFFLLMN| INSCRIBED IN TALES OF THE OCEAN | A |
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| This first book that I ever knew | B |
| Was read aloud to me by you | B |
| Friend of my boyhood therefore take | C |
| It back from me for old times' sake | C |
| The selfsame Tales first read to me | D |
| Under the old sweet apple tree | D |
| Ere I myself could read such great | E |
| Big words but listening all elate | E |
| At your interpreting until | F |
| Brain heart and soul were all athrill | F |
| With wonder awe and sheer excess | G |
| Of wildest childish happiness | H |
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| So take the book again forget | I |
| All else long years lost hopes regret | I |
| Sighs for the joys we ne'er attain | J |
| Prayers we have lifted all in vain | J |
| Tears for the faces seen no more | K |
| Once as the roses at the door | K |
| Take the enchanted book And lo | F |
| On grassy swards of long ago | F |
| Sprawl out again beneath the shade | L |
| The breezy old home orchard made | L |
| The veriest barefoot boy indeed | M |
| And I will listen as you read | N |
James Whitcomb Riley
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