Boyhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNMM LOPQ MMRM RSTS RUVU VDWD DXRX RVPV RUWU RUPU URDR| O Days that hold us and years that mold us | A |
| And dreams and mem'ries no time destroys | B |
| Where lie the islands the morning islands | C |
| And where the highlands we knew when boys | B |
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| Oh tell us whether the happy heather | D |
| Still purples ways we used to roam | E |
| And mid its roses its oldtime roses | F |
| The place reposes we knew as home | E |
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| Oh could we find him that boy and bind him | G |
| The boy we were that never grew | H |
| By whom we're haunted our hearts are haunted | I |
| What else were wanted by me and you | H |
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| Again to see it Again to knee it | J |
| The pond we waded the brook we swum | K |
| That held more pleasures more priceless pleasures | L |
| Than all the treasures to which we come | K |
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| Again to follow through wood and hollow | M |
| A cowbell's tinkle a bird's wild call | N |
| To where they yellow the daisies yellow | M |
| And lights lie mellow at evenfall | M |
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| To be the leaders of oaks and cedars | L |
| The giant hosts of worlds at war | O |
| Or princes airy proud princes airy | P |
| Of Lands of Faery that lie afar | Q |
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| Through scents of yarrow where paths are narrow | M |
| To foot the way we only know | M |
| That leads to places old orchard places | R |
| And garden spaces of Long Ago | M |
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| To climb rail fences when dusk commences | R |
| With young Adventure tanned hand in hand | S |
| And lead by starlight by dewy starlight | T |
| To one farm's far light a campaign planned | S |
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| Where she our princess mid blossoming quinces | R |
| The first dear girl for whom we cared | U |
| And got a rating her father's rating | V |
| Stands sweetly waiting brown eyed brown haired | U |
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| Or in the morning without a warning | V |
| With health for luggage and love for spur | D |
| To make invasion divine invasion | W |
| As suits occasion of worlds for her | D |
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| With her as eager again beleaguer | D |
| The forest's fortress of leaf and log | X |
| And pierce its vastness its gloomy vastness | R |
| And storm its fastness with stick and dog | X |
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| And from its shadows' rich Eldorados | R |
| The untold gold of blossoms bring | V |
| And as in story in song and story | P |
| Beard Wildness hoary like some old king | V |
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| Or lead lost legions through unknown regions | R |
| The pirate kings of isles unfound | U |
| On haystacks golden our galleons golden | W |
| Sail oceans olden of meadow ground | U |
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| And from those caitiffs the hideous natives | R |
| Invisible tribes that swarm the wood | U |
| To rescue Molly or Peg or Polly | P |
| With her dear dolly as pirates should | U |
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| O tanned and freckled and sunbeam speckled | U |
| O barefoot joy that romped the years | R |
| O reckless rapture O long lost rapture | D |
| Beyond the capture of all our tears | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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