James Clerk Maxwell

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Answer To Tait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DADAEE FBFBGG EGEGHH AGAGGG ICICAA GGGGHH JHJHAA

The mounted disk of eboniteA
Has whirled before nor whirled in vainB
Rowland of Troy that doughty knightA
Convection currents did obtainB
In such a disk of power to wheedleC
From its loved North the subtle needleC
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Twas when Sir Rowland as a stageD
From Troy to Baltimore took restA
In Berlin there old ArchimageD
Armed him to follow up this questA
Right glad to find himself possessorE
Of the irrepressible ProfessorE
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But wouldst thou twirl that disk once moreF
Then follow in Childe Rowland s trainB
To where in busy BaltimoreF
He brews the bantlings of his brainB
As he may do who still prefersG
One Rowland to two OliversG
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But Rowland no nor OliverE
Could get electromotive forceG
Which fact and reason both averE
Has change of some kind as its sourceG
Out of a disk in swift rotationH
Without the least accelerationH
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But with your splendid roundaboutA
Of mighty power new hung and greasyG
With galvanometer so stoutA
A new research would be as easyG
A test which might perchance discloseG
Which way the electric current flowsG
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Take then a coil of copper pureI
And fix it on your whirling tableC
Place the electrodes firm and sureI
As near the axis as you re ableC
And soon you ll learn the way to work itA
With galvanometer in circuitA
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Not while the coil in spinning sleepsG
On her smooth axle swift and steadyG
But when against the stops she sweepsG
To watch the light spot then be readyG
That you may learn from its deflexionH
The electric current s true directionH
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It may be that it does not moveJ
Or moves but for some other reasonH
Then let it be your boast to proveJ
Though some may think it out of seasonH
And worthy of a fossil DruidA
That there is no Electric FluidA

James Clerk Maxwell



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