At School-close Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQRQ STST UVUV WXWX YZYZ A2QA2Q B2ZC2Z A2D2A2| BOWDOIN STREET BOSTON | A |
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| The end has come as come it must | B |
| To all things in these sweet June days | C |
| The teacher and the scholar trust | B |
| Their parting feet to separate ways | C |
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| They part but in the years to be | D |
| Shall pleasant memories cling to each | E |
| As shells bear inland from the sea | D |
| The murmur of the rhythmic beach | E |
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| One knew the joy the sculptor knows | F |
| When plastic to his lightest touch | G |
| His clay wrought model slowly grows | F |
| To that fine grace desired so much | G |
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| So daily grew before her eyes | H |
| The living shapes whereon she wrought | I |
| Strong tender innocently wise | H |
| The child's heart with the woman's thought | I |
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| And one shall never quite forget | J |
| The voice that called from dream and play | K |
| The firm but kindly hand that set | J |
| Her feet in learning's pleasant way | K |
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| The joy of Undine soul possessed | L |
| The wakening sense the strange delight | M |
| That swelled the fabled statue's breast | L |
| And filled its clouded eyes with sight | M |
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| O Youth and Beauty loved of all | N |
| Ye pass from girlhood's gate of dreams | O |
| In broader ways your footsteps fall | N |
| Ye test the truth of all that seams | O |
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| Her little realm the teacher leaves | P |
| She breaks her wand of power apart | Q |
| While for your love and trust she gives | R |
| The warm thanks of a grateful heart | Q |
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| Hers is the sober summer noon | S |
| Contrasted with your morn of spring | T |
| The waning with the waxing moon | S |
| The folded with the outspread wing | T |
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| Across the distance of the years | U |
| She sends her God speed back to you | V |
| She has no thought of doubts or fears | U |
| Be but yourselves be pure be true | V |
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| And prompt in duty heed the deep | W |
| Low voice of conscience through the ill | X |
| And discord round about you keep | W |
| Your faith in human nature still | X |
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| Be gentle unto griefs and needs | Y |
| Be pitiful as woman should | Z |
| And spite of all the lies of creeds | Y |
| Hold fast the truth that God is good | Z |
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| Give and receive go forth and bless | A2 |
| The world that needs the hand and heart | Q |
| Of Martha's helpful carefulness | A2 |
| No less than Mary's better part | Q |
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| So shall the stream of time flow by | B2 |
| And leave each year a richer good | Z |
| And matron loveliness outvie | C2 |
| The nameless charm of maidenhood | Z |
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| And when the world shall link your names | A2 |
| With gracious lives and manners fine | D2 |
| The teacher shall assert her claims | A2 |
| And proudly whisper 'These were mine ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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