Lincoln Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DAEEA FGHHG IJKKJ| There was a boy of other days | A |
| A quiet awkward earnest lad | B |
| Who trudged long weary miles to get | C |
| A book on which his heart was set | C |
| And then no candle had | B |
| - | |
| He was too poor to buy a lamp | D |
| But very wise in woodmen's ways | A |
| He gathered seasoned bough and stem | E |
| And crisping leaf and kindled them | E |
| Into a ruddy blaze | A |
| - | |
| Then as he lay full length and read | F |
| The firelight flickered on his face | G |
| And etched his shadow on the gloom | H |
| And made a picture in the room | H |
| In that most humble place | G |
| - | |
| The hard years came the hard years went | I |
| But gentle brave and strong of will | J |
| He met them all And when today | K |
| We see his pictured face we say | K |
| There's light upon it still | J |
Nancy Byrd Turner
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