Lines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHI JJKK LLMM NNOO| I 'm ashamed that 's the fact it 's a pitiful case | A |
| Won't any kind classmate get up in my place | A |
| Just remember how often I've risen before | B |
| I blush as I straighten my legs on the floor | B |
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| There are stories once pleasing too many times told | C |
| There are beauties once charming too fearfully old | C |
| There are voices we've heard till we know them so well | D |
| Though they talked for an hour they'd have nothing to tell | D |
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| Yet Classmates Friends Brothers Dear blessed old boys | E |
| Made one by a lifetime of sorrows and joys | E |
| What lips have such sounds as the poorest of these | F |
| Though honeyed like Plato's by musical bees | F |
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| What voice is so sweet and what greeting so dear | G |
| As the simple warm welcome that waits for us here | H |
| The love of our boyhood still breathes in its tone | I |
| And our hearts throb the answer 'He's one of our own ' | - |
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| Nay count not our numbers some sixty we know | J |
| But these are above and those under the snow | J |
| And thoughts are still mingled wherever we meet | K |
| For those we remember with those that we greet | K |
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| We have rolled on life's journey how fast and how far | L |
| One round of humanity's many wheeled car | L |
| But up hill and down hill through rattle and rub | M |
| Old true Twenty niners we've stuck to our hub | M |
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| While a brain lives to think or a bosom to feel | N |
| We will cling to it still like the spokes of a wheel | N |
| And age as it chills us shall fasten the tire | O |
| That youth fitted round in his circle of fire | O |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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