The Schoolboy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB ACACC DEFEE GHGHH ICICC GJGJJ| I love to rise in a summer morn | A |
| When the birds sing on every tree | B |
| The distant huntsman winds his horn | A |
| And the skylark sings with me | B |
| O what sweet company | B |
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| But to go to school on a summer morn | A |
| O it drives all joy away | C |
| Under a cruel eye outworn | A |
| The little ones spend the day | C |
| In sighing and dismay | C |
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| Ah then at times I drooping sit | D |
| And spend many an anxious hour | E |
| Nor in my book can I take delight | F |
| Nor sit in learning's bower | E |
| Worn thro' with the dreary shower | E |
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| How can the bird that is born for joy | G |
| Sit in a cage and sing | H |
| How can a child when fears annoy | G |
| But droop his tender wing | H |
| And forget his youthful spring | H |
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| O father and mother if buds are nipped | I |
| And blossoms blown away | C |
| And if the tender plants are stripped | I |
| Of their joy in the springing day | C |
| By sorrow and care's dismay | C |
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| How shall the summer arise in joy | G |
| Or the summer's fruits appear | J |
| Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy | G |
| Or bless the mellowing year | J |
| When the blasts of winter appear | J |
William Blake
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