Songs Of Education: V. The Higher Mathematics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBBEFFF GHHFFFBFIF JKKFFFLFLF| Form Sub Section M | A |
| - | |
| Twice one is two | B |
| Twice two is four | C |
| But twice two is ninety six if you know the way to score | C |
| Half of two is one | D |
| Half of four is two | B |
| But half of four is forty per cent if your name is Montagu | B |
| For everything else is on the square | E |
| If done by the best quadratics | F |
| And nothing is low in High Finance | F |
| Or the Higher Mathematics | F |
| - | |
| A straight line is straight | G |
| And a square mile is flat | H |
| But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that | H |
| Two straight lines | F |
| Can't enclose a Space | F |
| But they can enclose a Corner to support the Chosen Race | F |
| For you never know what Dynamics do | B |
| With the lower truths of Statics | F |
| And half of two is a touring car | I |
| In the Higher Mathematics | F |
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| There is a place apart | J |
| Beyond the solar ray | K |
| Where parallel straight lines can meet in an unofficial way | K |
| There is a room that holds | F |
| The examiner or his clerks | F |
| Where you can square the circle or the man that gives the marks | F |
| Where you hide in the cellar and then look down | L |
| On the poets that live in the attics | F |
| For the whole of the house is upside down | L |
| In the Higher Mathematics | F |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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