A College Career Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDDDC EFEFGGGF HGDGIIIG JKIKBBB GLG IIIL BIBIGGGI MMMMIIIG MNMNMMMN GBGBIIIB BBBBIIIB BIBIIIIIA | |
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When one is young and eager | B |
A bejant and a boy | C |
Though his moustache be meagre | B |
That cannot mar his joy | C |
When at the Competition | D |
He takes a fair position | D |
And feels he has a mission | D |
A talent to employ | C |
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With pride he goes each morning | E |
Clad in a scarlet gown | F |
A cap his head adorning | E |
Both bought of Mr Brown | F |
He hears the harsh bell jangle | G |
And enters the quadrangle | G |
The classic tongues to mangle | G |
And make the ancients frown | F |
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He goes not forth at even | H |
He burns the midnight oil | G |
He feels that all his heaven | D |
Depends on ceaseless toil | G |
Across his exercises | I |
A dream of many prizes | I |
Before his spirit rises | I |
And makes his raw blood boil | G |
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Though he be green as grass is | J |
And fresh as new mown hay | K |
Before the first year passes | I |
His verdure fades away | K |
His hopes now faintly glimmer | B |
Grow dim and ever dimmer | B |
And with a parting shimmer | B |
Melt into 'common day ' | - |
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He cares no more for Liddell | G |
Or Scott and Smith and White | L |
And Lewis Short and Riddle | G |
Are 'emptied of delight ' | - |
Todhunter and Colenso | I |
Alas that friendships end so | I |
He curses in extenso | I |
Through morning noon and night | L |
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No more with patient labour | B |
The midnight oil he burns | I |
But unto some near neighbour | B |
His fair young face he turns | I |
To share the harmless tattle | G |
Which bejants love to prattle | G |
As wise as infant's rattle | G |
Or talk of coots and herns | I |
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At midnight round the city | M |
He carols wild and free | M |
Some sweet unmeaning ditty | M |
In many a changing key | M |
And each succeeding verse is | I |
Commingled with the curses | I |
Of those whose sleep disperses | I |
Like sal volatile | G |
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He shaves and takes his toddy | M |
Like any fourth year man | N |
And clothes his growing body | M |
After another plan | N |
Than that which once delighted | M |
When in the days benighted | M |
Like some wild thing excited | M |
About the fields he ran | N |
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A sweet life and an idle | G |
He lives from year to year | B |
Unknowing bit or bridle | G |
There are no proctors here | B |
Free as the flying swallow | I |
Which Ida's Prince would follow | I |
If but his bones were hollow | I |
Until the end draws near | B |
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Then comes a Dies Irae | B |
When full of misery | B |
And torments worse than fiery | B |
He crams for his degree | B |
And hitherto unvexed books | I |
Dry lectures abstracts text books | I |
Perplexing and perplexed books | I |
Make life seem vanity | B |
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Before admiring sister | B |
And mother see he stands | I |
Made Artium Magister | B |
With laying on of hands | I |
He gives his books to others | I |
Perchance his younger brothers | I |
And free from all such bothers | I |
Goes out into all lands | I |
Robert Fuller Murray
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