On A Change Of Masters At A Great Public School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJ KWHERE are those honours Ida once yow own | A |
When Probus fill'd your magisterial throne | A |
As ancient Rome fast falling to disgrace | B |
Hail'd a barbarian in her C sar's place | B |
So you degenerate share as hard a fate | C |
And seat Pomposus where your Probus sate | C |
Of narrow brain yet of a narrower soul | D |
Pomposus holds you in his harsh control | D |
Pomposus by no social virtue sway'd | E |
With florid jargon and with vain parade | E |
With noisy nonsense and new fangled rules | F |
Such as were ne'er before enforced in schools | F |
Mistaking pedantry for learning's laws | G |
He governs sanction'd but by self applause | G |
With him the same dire fate attending Rome | H |
Ill fated Ida soon must stamp your doom | I |
Like her o'erthrown for ever lost to fame | J |
No trace of science left you but the name | J |
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July | K |
George Gordon Byron
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