The School Where I Studied Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOPP| I passed by the school where I studied as a boy | A |
| and said in my heart here I learned certain things | B |
| and didn't learn others All my life I have loved in vain | C |
| the things I didn't learn I am filled with knowledge | D |
| I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge | D |
| the shape of its leaves the function of its root system its pests and parasites | E |
| I'm an expert on the botany of good and evil | F |
| I'm still studying it I'll go on studying till the day I die | G |
| I stood near the school building and looked in This is the room | H |
| where we sat and learned The windows of a classroom always open | I |
| to the future but in our innocence we thought it was only landscape | J |
| we were seeing from the window | K |
| The schoolyard was narrow paved with large stones | L |
| I remember the brief tumult of the two of us | M |
| near the rickety steps the tumult | N |
| that was the beginning of a first great love | O |
| Now it outlives us as if in a museum | P |
| like everything else in Jerusalem | P |
Yehuda Amichai
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