University Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGG GBGHIJKG GLMNOPQR SGMTBGUB VWXYUZA2B| To hurt the Negro and avoid the Jew | A |
| Is the curriculum In mid September | B |
| The entering boys identified by hats | C |
| Wander in a maze of mannered brick | D |
| Where boxwood and magnolia brood | E |
| And columns with imperious stance | F |
| Like rows of ante bellum girls | G |
| Eye them outlanders | G |
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| In whited cells on lawns equipped for peace | G |
| Under the arch and lofty banister | B |
| Equals shake hands unequals blankly pass | G |
| The exemplary weather whispers Quiet quiet | H |
| And visitors on tiptoe leave | I |
| For the raw North the unfinished West | J |
| As the young detecting an advantage | K |
| Practice a face | G |
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| Where on their separate hill the colleges | G |
| Like manor houses of an older law | L |
| Gaze down embankments on a land in fee | M |
| The Deans dry spinsters over family plate | N |
| Ring out the English name like coin | O |
| Humor the snob and lure the lout | P |
| Within the precincts of this world | Q |
| Poise is a club | R |
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| But on the neighboring range misty and high | S |
| The past is absolute some luckless race | G |
| Dull with inbreeding and conformity | M |
| Wears out its heart and comes barefoot and bad | T |
| For charity or jail The scholar | B |
| Sanctions their obsolete disease | G |
| The gentleman revolts with shame | U |
| At his ancestor | B |
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| And the true nobleman once a democrat | V |
| Sleeps on his private mountain He was one | W |
| Whose thought was shapely and whose dream was broad | X |
| This school he held his art and epitaph | Y |
| But now it takes from him his name | U |
| Falls open like a dishonest look | Z |
| And shows us rotted and endowed | A2 |
| Its senile pleasure | B |
Karl Shapiro
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