Added For The Alumni Meeting, June 29, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH| So the gray Boatswain of 'Twenty nine | A |
| Piped to The Boys as they crossed the line | A |
| Round the cabin sat thirty guests | B |
| Babes of the nurse with a thousand breasts | B |
| - | |
| There were the judges grave and grand | C |
| Flanked by the priests on either hand | C |
| There was the lord of wealth untold | D |
| And the dear good fellow in broadcloth old | D |
| - | |
| Thirty men from twenty towns | E |
| Sires and grandsires with silvered crowns | E |
| Thirty school boys all in a row | F |
| Bens and Georges and Bill and Joe | F |
| - | |
| In thirty goblets the wine was poured | G |
| But threescore gathered around the board | G |
| For lo at the side of every chair | H |
| A shadow hovered we all were there | H |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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