Hic Vir, Hic Est Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBF GHBHHBBB IJBJKHIH CBHBBLHL JJMJHIHI JBBBNOJO HHPHHHCH BBHBOHBH JQBQBLK| Often when o'er tree and turret | A |
| Eve a dying radiance flings | B |
| By that ancient pile I linger | C |
| Known familiarly as 'King's ' | D |
| And the ghosts of days departed | E |
| Rise and in my burning breast | F |
| All the undergraduate wakens | B |
| And my spirit is at rest | F |
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| What but a revolting fiction | G |
| Seems the actual result | H |
| Of the Census's enquiries | B |
| Made upon the th ult | H |
| Still my soul is in its boyhood | H |
| Nor of year or changes recks | B |
| Though my scalp is almost hairless | B |
| And my figure grows convex | B |
| - | |
| Backward moves the kindly dial | I |
| And I'm numbered once again | J |
| With those noblest of their species | B |
| Called emphatically 'Men' | J |
| Loaf as I have loafed aforetime | K |
| Through the streets with tranquil mind | H |
| And a long backed fancy mongrel | I |
| Trailing casually behind | H |
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| Past the Senate house I saunter | C |
| Whistling with an easy grace | B |
| Past the cabbage stalks that carpet | H |
| Still the beefy market place | B |
| Poising evermore the eye glass | B |
| In the light sarcastic eye | L |
| Lest by chance some breezy nursemaid | H |
| Pass without a tribute by | L |
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| Once an unassuming Freshman | J |
| Through these wilds I wandered on | J |
| Seeing in each house a College | M |
| Under every cap a Don | J |
| Each perambulating infant | H |
| Had a magic in its squall | I |
| For my eager eye detected | H |
| Senior Wranglers in them all | I |
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| By degrees my education | J |
| Grew and I became as others | B |
| Learned to court delirium tremens | B |
| By the aid of Bacon Brothers | B |
| Bought me tiny boots of Mortlock | N |
| And colossal prints of Roe | O |
| And ignored the proposition | J |
| That both time and money go | O |
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| Learned to work the wary dogcart | H |
| Artfully through King's Parade | H |
| Dress and steer a boat and sport with | P |
| Amaryllis in the shade | H |
| Struck at Brown's the dashing hazard | H |
| Or more curious sport than that | H |
| Dropped at Callaby's the terrier | C |
| Down upon the prisoned rat | H |
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| I have stood serene on Fenner's | B |
| Ground indifferent to blisters | B |
| While the Buttress of the period | H |
| Bowled me his peculiar twisters | B |
| Sung 'We won't go home till morning' | O |
| Striven to part my backhair straight | H |
| Drunk not lavishly of Miller's | B |
| Old dry wines at | H |
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| When within my veins the blood ran | J |
| And the curls were on my brow | Q |
| I did oh ye undergraduates | B |
| Much as ye are doing now | Q |
| Wherefore bless ye O beloved ones | B |
| Now unto mine inn must I | L |
| Your 'poor moralist ' a betake me | K |
| In my 'solitary fly ' | - |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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