The Logical Conclusion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKJ LMMMMNON J| When earth's last thesis is copied | A |
| From the theses that went before | B |
| When idea from fact has departed | C |
| And bare boned factlets shall bore | B |
| When all joy shall have fled from study | D |
| And scholarship reign supreme | E |
| When truth shall 'baaa' on the hill crests | F |
| And no one shall dare to dream | E |
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| When all the good poems have been buried | A |
| With comment annoted in full | G |
| And art shall bow down in homage | H |
| To scholarship's zinc plated bull | G |
| When there shall be nothing to research | I |
| But the notes of annoted notes | J |
| And Baalam's ass shall inquire | K |
| The price of imported oats | J |
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| Then no one shall tell him the answer | L |
| For each shall know the one fact | M |
| That lies in the special ass ignment | M |
| From which he is making his tract | M |
| So the ass shall sigh uninstructed | M |
| While each in his separate book | N |
| Shall grind for the love of grinding | O |
| And only the devil shall look | N |
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| Against the 'germanic' system of graduate study and insane specialization in the Inanities | J |
Ezra Pound
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