The Greek Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH IJIJKKKK LMLMKKNN| Gone are the glorious Greeks of old | A |
| Glorious in mien and mind | B |
| Their bones are mingled with the mould | A |
| Their dust is on the wind | B |
| The forms they hewed from living stone | C |
| Survive the waste of years alone | C |
| And scattered with their ashes show | D |
| What greatness perished long ago | D |
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| Yet fresh the myrtles there the springs | E |
| Gush brightly as of yore | F |
| Flowers blossom from the dust of kings | E |
| As many an age before | F |
| There nature moulds as nobly now | G |
| As e'er of old the human brow | G |
| And copies still the martial form | H |
| That braved Plataea's battle storm | H |
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| Boy thy first looks were taught to seek | I |
| Their heaven in Hellas' skies | J |
| Her airs have tinged thy dusky cheek | I |
| Her sunshine lit thine eyes | J |
| Thine ears have drunk the woodland strains | K |
| Heard by old poets and thy veins | K |
| Swell with the blood of demigods | K |
| That slumber in thy country's sods | K |
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| Now is thy nation free though late | L |
| Thy elder brethren broke | M |
| Broke ere thy spirit felt its weight | L |
| The intolerable yoke | M |
| And Greece decayed dethroned doth see | K |
| Her youth renewed in such as thee | K |
| A shoot of that old vine that made | N |
| The nations silent in its shade | N |
William Cullen Bryant
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