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