The Preceptor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEFFDDGGHHIIDD D| Homme chauve et noir | A |
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| XIX May | B |
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| A gruesome man bald clad in black | C |
| Who kept us youthful drudges in the track | C |
| Thinking it good for them to leave home care | D |
| And for a while a harsher yoke to bear | D |
| Surrender all the careless ease of home | E |
| And be forbid from schoolyard bounds to roam | E |
| For this with blandest smiles he softly asks | F |
| That they with him will prosecute their tasks | F |
| Receives them in his solemn chilly lair | D |
| The rigid lot of discipline to share | D |
| At dingy desks they toil by day at night | G |
| To gloomy chambers go uncheered by light | G |
| Where pillars rudely grayed by rusty nail | H |
| Of heavy hours reveal the weary tale | H |
| Where spiteful ushers grin all pleased to make | I |
| Long scribbled lines the price of each mistake | I |
| By four unpitying walls environed there | D |
| The homesick students pace the pavements bare | D |
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| E E FREWER | D |
Victor-marie Hugo
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