To A Boy, With A Watch, Written For A Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FEFE GEGE| Is it not sweet beloved youth | A |
| To rove through Erudition's bowers | B |
| And cull the golden fruits of truth | A |
| And gather Fancy's brilliant flowers | B |
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| And is it not more sweet than this | C |
| To feel thy parents' hearts approving | D |
| And pay them back in sums of bliss | C |
| The dear the endless debt of loving | D |
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| It must be so to thee my youth | A |
| With this idea toil is lighter | E |
| This sweetens all the fruits of truth | A |
| And makes the flowers of fancy brighter | E |
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| The little gift we send thee boy | F |
| May sometimes teach thy soul to ponder | E |
| If indolence or siren joy | F |
| Should ever tempt that soul to wander | E |
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| 'Twill tell thee that the wing d day | G |
| Can ne'er be chain'd by man's endeavor | E |
| That life and time shall fade away | G |
| While heaven and virtue bloom forever | E |
Thomas Moore
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