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The Old School Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCECFGHGICJCKLML CCNC DOPONCJC

'Twas a quaint old clock with a quaint old faceA
and great iron weights and chainB
It stopped when it liked and before it struckC
it creaked as if 'twere in painB
It had seen many years and it seemed to sayD
'I'm one of the real old stock'C
To the youthful fry who with reverence lookedE
on the face of the old school clockC
What a terrible frown did the old clock wearF
to the truant who timidly castG
An anxious eye on those merciless handsH
that for him had been moving too fastG
But its frown soon changed for it loved to smileI
on the thoughtless noisy flockC
And it creaked and whirred and struck with gleeJ
Did that genial good humoured old clockC
Well years had passed and my mind was filledK
with the world its cares and waysL
When again I stood in that little schoolM
where I passed my boyhood daysL
My old friend was gone And there hung a thingC
that my sorrow seemed to mockC
As I gazed with a tear and a softened heartN
at a new fashioned Yankee clockC
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'Tis the way of the world Old friends pass awayD
and fresh faces arise in their steadO
But still 'mid the din and bustle of lifeP
we cherish fond thoughts of the deadO
Yes dearly those memories cling round my heartN
and bravely withstand Time's rude shockC
But not one is more dear or more hallowed to meJ
than the face of that old school clockC

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