A Song Of "twenty-nine" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDE FGFGHHI BJBJHHK BHBHLLH MNMNDDO PQPQRRS HHHHTTU RHRHQQE RDRDQQE MVMVKKH BHBHHHHA | |
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The summer dawn is breaking | B |
On Auburn's tangled bowers | C |
The golden light is waking | B |
On Harvard's ancient towers | C |
The sun is in the sky | D |
That must see us do or die | D |
Ere it shine on the line | E |
Of the CLASS OF ' | - |
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At last the day is ended | F |
The tutor screws no more | G |
By doubt and fear attended | F |
Each hovers round the door | G |
Till the good old Praeses cries | H |
While the tears stand in his eyes | H |
You have passed and are classed | I |
With the Boys of ' | - |
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Not long are they in making | B |
The college halls their own | J |
Instead of standing shaking | B |
Too bashful to be known | J |
But they kick the Seniors' shins | H |
Ere the second week begins | H |
When they stray in the way | K |
Of the BOYS OF ' | - |
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If a jolly set is trolling | B |
The last Der Freischutz airs | H |
Or a cannon bullet rolling | B |
Comes bouncing down the stairs | H |
The tutors looking out | L |
Sigh Alas there is no doubt | L |
'T is the noise of the Boys | H |
Of the CLASS OF ' | - |
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Four happy years together | M |
By storm and sunshine tried | N |
In changing wind and weather | M |
They rough it side by side | N |
Till they hear their Mother cry | D |
You are fledged and you must fly | D |
And the bell tolls the knell | O |
Of the days of ' | - |
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Since then in peace or trouble | P |
Full many a year has rolled | Q |
And life has counted double | P |
The days that then we told | Q |
Yet we'll end as we've begun | R |
For though scattered we are one | R |
While each year sees us here | S |
Round the board of ' | - |
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Though fate may throw between us | H |
The mountains or the sea | H |
No time shall ever wean us | H |
No distance set us free | H |
But around the yearly board | T |
When the flaming pledge is poured | T |
It shall claim every name | U |
On the roll of ' | - |
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To yonder peaceful ocean | R |
That glows with sunset fires | H |
Shall reach the warm emotion | R |
This welcome day inspires | H |
Beyond the ridges cold | Q |
Where a brother toils for gold | Q |
Till it shine through the mine | E |
Round the Boy of ' | - |
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If one whom fate has broken | R |
Shall lift a moistened eye | D |
We'll say before he 's spoken | R |
Old Classmate don't you cry | D |
Here take the purse I hold | Q |
There 's a tear upon the gold | Q |
It was mine it is thine | E |
A'n't we BOYS OF ' | - |
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As nearer still and nearer | M |
The fatal stars appear | V |
The living shall be dearer | M |
With each encircling year | V |
Till a few old men shall say | K |
We remember 't is the day | K |
Let it pass with a glass | H |
For the CLASS OF ' | - |
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As one by one is falling | B |
Beneath the leaves or snows | H |
Each memory still recalling | B |
The broken ring shall close | H |
Till the nightwinds softly pass | H |
O'er the green and growing grass | H |
Where it waves on the graves | H |
Of the BOYS OF ' | - |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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