Memories Of Schooldays Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLFL MNON PFQF RSFS TUJU CISI VHWJ XYZY A2B2C2B2| There are mem'ries glad of the old school house | A |
| Which throng around me still | B |
| And voices spoke in my youthful days | C |
| My ears with music fill | B |
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| Those youthful voices I seem to hear | D |
| With their gladsome joyous tone | E |
| And joy and hope they bring to me | F |
| When I am all alone | E |
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| I think of the joys of that time long past | G |
| Of its boyish hopes and fears | H |
| And 'tis partly joy and partly pain | I |
| That wets my eyes with tears | J |
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| For 'tis joy I feel when I seem to stand | K |
| Where I stood long years ago | L |
| And when I think that cannot be | F |
| My heart is fill'd with woe | L |
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| My old school mates are scatter'd far | M |
| And some are with the dead | N |
| And my old class mates have wander'd too | O |
| To seek for fame or bread | N |
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| And those who still are near my home | P |
| And whom I often see | F |
| Have come to manhood's grave estate | Q |
| They're boys no more to me | F |
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| And tho' we meet in converse yet | R |
| And each one's thoughts enjoy | S |
| Our thoughts and words are not so free | F |
| As when each was a boy | S |
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| For the spring of life is gone for us | T |
| With all its bursting bloom | U |
| And manhood's thoughts and joys and cares | J |
| Are now within its room | U |
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| But the mem'ry of our bright school days | C |
| Will last through ev'ry strain | I |
| And time will brighten ev'ry joy | S |
| And darken ev'ry pain | I |
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| The rippling of our childhood's laugh | V |
| Will roll adown the years | H |
| And time will blunt each day we live | W |
| The mem'ry of our tears | J |
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| Our boyhood's hopes and boyhood's dreams | X |
| And aspirations high | Y |
| Will doubtless never be fulfill'd | Z |
| Until the day we die | Y |
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| But still we'll cherish in our hearts | A2 |
| And live those days again | B2 |
| When awkardly we read our books | C2 |
| Or trembling held the pen | B2 |
Thomas Frederick Young
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