An Old Man's Thought Of School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EFGHI JKA LMN OPQA| An old man's thought of School | A |
| An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot | B |
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| Now only do I know you | C |
| O fair auroral skies O morning dew upon the grass | D |
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| And these I see these sparkling eyes | E |
| These stores of mystic meaning these young lives | F |
| Building equipping like a fleet of ships immortal ships | G |
| Soon to sail out over the measureless seas | H |
| On the Soul's voyage | I |
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| Only a lot of boys and girls | J |
| Only the tiresome spelling writing ciphering classes | K |
| Only a Public School | A |
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| Ah more infinitely more | L |
| As George Fox rais'd his warning cry Is it this pile of brick and mortar these dead floors windows rails you call the church | M |
| Why this is not the church at all the Church is living ever living Souls | N |
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| And you America | O |
| Cast you the real reckoning for your present | P |
| The lights and shadows of your future good or evil | Q |
| To girlhood boyhood look the Teacher and the School | A |
Walt Whitman
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