Boyhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNMM LOPQ MMRM RSTS RUVU VDWD DXRX RVPV RUWU RUPU URDRO 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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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 |
- | |
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
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Boyhood poem by Madison Julius Cawein
Best Poems of Madison Julius Cawein