A Romance In Real (academic) Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI JKJK ALAL MNMN AOAO EPEP QEQ RSTS PIPI UMUM| By the waters of Cam as the shades were descending | A |
| A Fellow sat moaning his desolate lot | B |
| From his sad eyes were flowing salt rivulets blending | A |
| Their tide with the river which heeded them not | B |
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| O why did I leave thus he wearily muttered | C |
| The silent repose and the shade of my books | D |
| Where the voice of a woman no sound ever uttered | C |
| And I ne'er felt the magic of feminine looks | D |
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| Then I rose when the east with Aurora was ruddy | E |
| Took a plunge in my Pliny collated a play | F |
| No breakfast I ate for I found in each study | E |
| A collation which lasted me all through the day | F |
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| I know not what temptress first came to my garden | G |
| Of Eden and lured me stern wisdom to leave | H |
| But I rather believe that a sweet 'Dolly Varden' | G |
| Came into my rooms on a soft summer eve | H |
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| From that hour to this dresses silken and satin | G |
| Seem to rustle around me like wings in a dream | I |
| And eyes of bright blue as I lecture in Latin | G |
| Fill my head with ideas quite remote from my theme | I |
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| My life was once lonely and almost ascetic | J |
| But now if I venture to walk in the street | K |
| With her books in her hand some fair Peripatetic | J |
| Is sure to address me with whisperings sweet | K |
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| O dear DR OXYTONE tell me the meaning | A |
| Of this terrible phrase which I cannot make out | L |
| And what is the Latin for reaping and gleaning | A |
| Is podagra the Greek or the Latin for gout | L |
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| 'And what do you mean by paroemiac bases | M |
| Did the ladies in Athens wear heels very high | N |
| Do give me the rules for Greek accents and Crasis | M |
| Did CORNELIA drive out to dine in a fly | N |
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| 'When were bonnets first worn was the toga becoming | A |
| Were woman's rights duly respected in Rome | O |
| What tune was that horrible Emperor strumming | A |
| When all was on fire was it Home Sweet Home | O |
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| Such questions as these sweetest questions assail me | E |
| When I walk on our Trumpington Road Rotten Row | P |
| The voice of the charmer ne'er ceases to hail me | E |
| Is it wisely she charmeth wherever I go | P |
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| Locked up in my rooms I sigh wearily 'ohe ' | - |
| But cards notes and letters pour in by each post | Q |
| From PHYLLIS EUPHROSYNE PHIDYLE CHLOE | E |
| AMARYLLIS and JANE and a numberless host | Q |
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| And now I must take either poison or blue pill | R |
| For things cannot last very long as they are | S |
| He ceased as the exquisite form of a pupil | T |
| Dawned upon him serene as a beautiful star | S |
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| Much of syntax and accidence moving our Fellow | P |
| Discoursed as they sat by the murmuring stream | I |
| Till as young Desdemona was charmed by Othello | P |
| She listened as one who is dreaming a dream | I |
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| Now he who was once a confirmed woman hater | U |
| Sees faces around him far dearer than books | M |
| And no longer a Coelebs but husband and pater | U |
| Lauds in Latin and Greek MRS OXYTONE'S looks | M |
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Edward Woodley Bowling
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