The Golden Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLN OPOP IQIQ| IN times of peace so clean and bright | A |
| And with a new washed morning face | B |
| He walked Pall Mall a goodly sight | A |
| The finished flower of all the race | B |
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| Or through Bond Street and Piccadilly | C |
| Went spick and span without a soil | D |
| As careless as the July lily | C |
| That spins not neither does she toil | D |
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| He took his soldiering as sport | E |
| And beauteous in his mufti stirred | F |
| Romance i' the simple female sort | E |
| That loves a guardsman or a lord | G |
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| And now knee deep in muddy water | H |
| Unwashed unshaven see him go | I |
| His garments stained with mud and slaughter | H |
| Would break the heart of Savile Row | I |
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| The danger's in his blood like wine | J |
| The old heroic passion leaps | K |
| The son of the mighty fighting line | J |
| Goes glad whatever woman weeps | K |
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| He plays the game winning or losing | L |
| As in the playing fields at home | M |
| This picnic's nothing of his choosing | L |
| But since it's started let it come | N |
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| He lives his hour with keenest zest | O |
| And midst the flying death he spares | P |
| A laugh to the light heart schoolboy jest | O |
| Mingled with curses and with prayers | P |
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| Gay as at Eton or at Harrow | I |
| Counts battles as by goals and runs | Q |
| God keep him from Death's flying arrow | I |
| To give his England fighting sons | Q |
Katharine Tynan
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