Old Spring Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAEFGHGIJKLMGNG OPQPNNDNRSTSNNNNUENE| I wonder who the children are | A |
| That troop to school these days | B |
| Along the old McDuffie path | C |
| That winds through woody ways | B |
| And leads into the road whereby | D |
| The neighbors go to mill | E |
| I wonder who the scholars are | A |
| At Old Spring Hill | E |
| I wonder if they play the games | F |
| We played when I was there | G |
| Round town low razor bull pen cat | H |
| Base leap frog hounds and hare | G |
| Perhaps the spring is choked with leaves | I |
| Perhaps the church is gone | J |
| With all its shattered panes that told | K |
| Of wild balls thrown | L |
| Whoe er the children are I know | M |
| The same old noise is there | G |
| The droning whisper afternoons | N |
| When chalk dust fills the air | G |
| The same old fractions multiplied | O |
| The same old cities named | P |
| Mensa mensae is still declined | Q |
| And Spartacus declaimed | P |
| But oh the vines of muscadines | N |
| That cluster in those woods | N |
| Those ripe persimmons hanging high | D |
| Loose in their browning hoods | N |
| Those tough dwarf apples full of seed | R |
| Are ready now to eat | S |
| And thorns of prickly pear though dead | T |
| Are quite alert for feet | S |
| If I should go there now those brats | N |
| Would stare into my face | N |
| And whisper who that stranger was | N |
| That sauntered round the place | N |
| But though the tow heads knew me not | U |
| I could have all my will | E |
| Of those dear memoried childhood haunts | N |
| At old Spring Hill | E |
John Charles Mcneill
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