Going Back To School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDDECFGHGFIIIIJI IKIKJLLMMNN| The boat ploughed on Now Alcatraz was past | A |
| And all the grey waves flamed to red again | B |
| At the dead sun's last glimmer Far and vast | A |
| The Sausalito lights burned suddenly | C |
| In little dots and clumps as if a pen | B |
| Had scrawled vague lines of gold across the hills | D |
| The sky was like a cup some rare wine fills | D |
| And stars came as he watched | E |
| and he was free | C |
| One splendid instant back in the great room | F |
| Curled in a chair with all of them beside | G |
| And the whole world a rush of happy voices | H |
| With laughter beating in a clamorous tide | G |
| Saw once again the heat of harvest fume | F |
| Up to the empty sky in threads like glass | I |
| And ran and was a part of what rejoices | I |
| In thunderous nights of rain lay in the grass | I |
| Sun baked and tired looking through a maze | I |
| Of tiny stems into a new green world | J |
| Once more knew eves of perfume days ablaze | I |
| With clear dry heat on the brown rolling fields | I |
| Shuddered with fearful ecstasy in bed | K |
| Over a book of knights and bloody shields | I |
| The ship slowed jarred and stopped There straight ahead | K |
| Were dock and fellows Stumbling he was whirled | J |
| Out and away to meet them and his back | L |
| Slumped to the old half cringe his hands fell slack | L |
| A big boy's arm went round him and a twist | M |
| Sent shattering pain along his tortured wrist | M |
| As a voice cried a bloated voice and fat | N |
| Why it's Miss Nancy Come along you rat | N |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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