London Types: Bluecoat Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDEFEFCC| So went our boys when Edward Sixth the King | A |
| Chartered Christ's Hospital and died And so | B |
| Full fifteen generations in a string | A |
| Of heirs to his bequest have had to go | B |
| Thus Camden showed and Barnes and Stillingfleet | C |
| And Richardson that bade our Lovelace be | D |
| Thus to his Genevieve young S T C | D |
| With thousands else that wandering up and down | E |
| Quaint privileged liked and reputed well | F |
| Made the great School a part of London Town | E |
| Patent as Paul's and vital as Bow Bell | F |
| The old School nearing exile day by day | C |
| To certain clay lands somewhere Horsham way | C |
William Ernest Henley
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