A Boy's Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGAA HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PQRR SSTT UUVVIt's out and away at break of day | A |
To frolic and run in the sun sweet hay | A |
It's up and out with a laugh and shout | B |
Let the old world know that a boy's about | B |
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It's ho for the creek that the minnows streak | C |
That the sunbeams dapple the cattle seek | C |
For a fishing pole and a swimming hole | D |
Where a boy can loaf and chat with his soul | D |
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It's oh to lie and look at the sky | E |
Through the roof of the leaves that's built so high | E |
Where all day long the birds make song | F |
And everything 's right and nothing is wrong | F |
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It's hey to win where the breeze blows thin | G |
And watch the twinkle of feather and fin | G |
To lie all day and dream away | A |
The long long hours as a boy's heart may | A |
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It's oh to talk with the trees and walk | H |
With the winds that whisper to flower and stalk | H |
And it's oh to look in the open book | I |
Of your own boy dreams in some leafy nook | I |
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Away from the noise of the town and toys | J |
To dream the dreams that are dreamed by boys | J |
To run in the heat with sun tanned feet | K |
To the music of youth in your heart's young beat | K |
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To splash and wade in the light and shade | L |
Of the league long ripples the sunbeams braid | L |
In boyhood's wise to see with eyes | M |
Of fancy hued as the butterflies | M |
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To walk for hours and learn the flowers | N |
And things that haunt the woods and bowers | N |
To climb to a nest on a tree's top crest | O |
Where a bird like your heart is singing its best | O |
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To feel the rain on your face again | P |
Like the thirsty throats that the flowers strain | Q |
To hear the call of the waterfall | R |
Like the voice of youth a wonder thrall | R |
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And it's oh for me at last to see | S |
The rainbow's end by the hillside tree | S |
On the wet hillside where the wild ferns hide | T |
Like a boy's bright soul to see it glide | T |
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Then to laugh and run through shower and sun | U |
In the irised hues that are arched and spun | U |
And the rainbow's friend to find and spend | V |
The bag of gold at the rainbow's end | V |
Madison Julius Cawein
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