The School-taught Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIH JKLK MNONEEPE NQERSFTF EUVUWEJE EXE YIZI IA2B2A2UEC2E D2E2C2E2F2E2C2E2 IG2C2G2| His step was light and his looks as bright | A |
| As the beams of the morning sun | B |
| And his boyish dreams as the rippling streams | C |
| That gently onward run | B |
| Without a shock from rugged rock | D |
| To check their course of glee | E |
| As they wound their way day after day | F |
| To their destin'd goal the sea | E |
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| He had come from the schools brimful of rules | G |
| His head and note book cramm'd | H |
| With varied lore from many a shore | I |
| Pack'd solid in e'en jamm'd | H |
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| He'd learn'd a part of many an art | J |
| Had studied mathematics | K |
| And thought he knew how people grew | L |
| In palaces or attics | K |
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| He'd scann'd the page of many a sage | M |
| And did his mind adorn | N |
| With classic sweets and varied treats | O |
| Preserv'd ere he was born | N |
| And now says he upon life's sea | E |
| I'll steer my bark so truly | E |
| She is he thought so trim and taut | P |
| She cannot prove unruly | E |
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| He look'd each morn with cultur'd scorn | N |
| On homely barks beside him | Q |
| And pass'd them by right merrily | E |
| Whenever he espied them | R |
| O do but note how well they float | S |
| An aged man did say | F |
| He pass'd him by with flashing eye | T |
| I've mark'd me out my way | F |
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| And did you see how easily | E |
| Those ships their helm obey'd | U |
| When in that storm your vessel's form | V |
| So near the rocks was laid | U |
| Young man so stern you've yet to learn | W |
| That sailing on life's sea | E |
| Is not an art to get by heart | J |
| Just like the rule of three | E |
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| You'll have to know this 'fleeting show ' | - |
| Tho' fleeting it may be | E |
| Requires tact to think and act | X |
| That is not known to thee | E |
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| Thus the old man said but this youth so read | Y |
| In varied arts and lore | I |
| Bent not his neck but trod the deck | Z |
| And calmly look'd on shore | I |
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| But soon the shore was seen no more | I |
| The sea so calm got troubl'd | A2 |
| The billows wild no more beguil'd | B2 |
| But round him boil'd and bubbl'd | A2 |
| The craft it sway'd the boy dismay'd | U |
| Saw how she rode unsteady | E |
| The helm in vain they tug and strain | C2 |
| For storms she is not ready | E |
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| She pitch'd and toss'd she's lost she's lost | D2 |
| For see the rocks beside her | E2 |
| Each effort's vain she's cleft in twain | C2 |
| And now O woe betide her | E2 |
| The old man spoke as through her broke | F2 |
| The cruel rocks around her | E2 |
| Advice was vain you took the chain | C2 |
| And helplessly you bound her | E2 |
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| For all your store of varied lore | I |
| Tho' guidance and defence | G2 |
| Was quite in vain to stand the strain | C2 |
| Like rocks of common sense | G2 |
Thomas Frederick Young
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