In School-days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBHB IBJB KBLB MNON CPQP RBSB PTUT VBWB HXYX

Still sits the school house by the roadA
A ragged beggar sleepingB
Around it still the sumachs growC
And blackberry vines are creepingB
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Within the master's desk is seenD
Deep scarred by raps officialE
The warping floor the battered seatsF
The jack knife's carved initialE
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The charcoal frescoes on its wallG
Its door's worn sill betrayingB
The feet that creeping slow to schoolH
Went storming out to playingB
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Long years ago a winter sunI
Shone over it at settingB
Lit up its western window panesJ
And low eaves' icy frettingB
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It touched the tangled golden curlsK
And brown eyes full of grievingB
Of one who still her steps delayedL
When all the school were leavingB
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For near it stood the little boyM
Her childish favor singledN
His cap pulled low upon a faceO
Where pride and shame were mingledN
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Pushing with restless feet the snowC
To right and left he lingeredP
As restlessly her tiny handsQ
The blue checked apron fingeredP
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He saw her lift her eyes he feltR
The soft hand's light caressingB
And heard the tremble of her voiceS
As if a fault confessingB
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I'm sorry that I spelt the wordP
I hate to go above youT
Because the brown eyes lower fellU
Because you see I love youT
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Still memory to a gray haired manV
That sweet child face is showingB
Dear girl the grasses on her graveW
Have forty years been growingB
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He lives to learn in life's hard schoolH
How few who pass above himX
Lament their triumph and his lossY
Like her because they love himX

John Greenleaf Whittier



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Lynne L. Wilburn: they are closing down my old high school and I looked for the poem to share with my old classmates...we were not an old country school but we are a small vanishing village..it works alone with John Lennon's.""InMy Life""
 

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