On A Change Of Masters At A Great Public School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJ| Where are those honours IDA once your 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 controul | 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 enforc'd 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 |
George Gordon Lord Byron
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