The New School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE EEEE CEFEF EEEE GHEHHE| For My Mother | A |
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| The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet | B |
| Are still with a stillness that is too drear to seem like holiday | C |
| And never a gust of laughter breaks the calm of the dreaming street | B |
| Or rises to shake the ivied walls and frighten the doves away | C |
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| The dust is on book and on empty desk and the tennis racquet and balls | D |
| Lie still in their lonely locker and wait for a game that is never played | E |
| And over the study and lecture room and the river and meadow falls | D |
| A stern peace a strange peace a peace that War has made | E |
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| For many a youthful shoulder now is gay with an epaulet | E |
| And the hand that was deft with a cricket bat is defter with a sword | E |
| And some of the lads will laugh to day where the trench is red and wet | E |
| And some will win on the bloody field the accolade of the Lord | E |
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| They have taken their youth and mirth away | C |
| from the study and playing ground | E |
| To a new school in an alien land beneath an alien sky | F |
| Out in the smoke and roar of the fight their lessons and games are found | E |
| And they who were learning how to live are learning how to die | F |
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| And after the golden day has come and the war is at an end | E |
| A slab of bronze on the chapel wall will tell of the noble dead | E |
| And every name on that radiant list will be the name of a friend | E |
| A name that shall through the centuries in grateful prayers be said | E |
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| And there will be ghosts in the old school | G |
| brave ghosts with laughing eyes | H |
| On the field with a ghostly cricket bat by the stream with a ghostly rod | E |
| They will touch the hearts of the living with a flame that sanctifies | H |
| A flame that they took with strong young hands | H |
| from the altar fires of God | E |
Joyce Kilmer
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