Answer To Tait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DADAEE FBFBGG EGEGHH AGAGGG ICICAA GGGGHH JHJHAA| The mounted disk of ebonite | A |
| Has whirled before nor whirled in vain | B |
| Rowland of Troy that doughty knight | A |
| Convection currents did obtain | B |
| In such a disk of power to wheedle | C |
| From its loved North the subtle needle | C |
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| Twas when Sir Rowland as a stage | D |
| From Troy to Baltimore took rest | A |
| In Berlin there old Archimage | D |
| Armed him to follow up this quest | A |
| Right glad to find himself possessor | E |
| Of the irrepressible Professor | E |
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| But wouldst thou twirl that disk once more | F |
| Then follow in Childe Rowland s train | B |
| To where in busy Baltimore | F |
| He brews the bantlings of his brain | B |
| As he may do who still prefers | G |
| One Rowland to two Olivers | G |
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| But Rowland no nor Oliver | E |
| Could get electromotive force | G |
| Which fact and reason both aver | E |
| Has change of some kind as its source | G |
| Out of a disk in swift rotation | H |
| Without the least acceleration | H |
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| But with your splendid roundabout | A |
| Of mighty power new hung and greasy | G |
| With galvanometer so stout | A |
| A new research would be as easy | G |
| A test which might perchance disclose | G |
| Which way the electric current flows | G |
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| Take then a coil of copper pure | I |
| And fix it on your whirling table | C |
| Place the electrodes firm and sure | I |
| As near the axis as you re able | C |
| And soon you ll learn the way to work it | A |
| With galvanometer in circuit | A |
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| Not while the coil in spinning sleeps | G |
| On her smooth axle swift and steady | G |
| But when against the stops she sweeps | G |
| To watch the light spot then be ready | G |
| That you may learn from its deflexion | H |
| The electric current s true direction | H |
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| It may be that it does not move | J |
| Or moves but for some other reason | H |
| Then let it be your boast to prove | J |
| Though some may think it out of season | H |
| And worthy of a fossil Druid | A |
| That there is no Electric Fluid | A |
James Clerk Maxwell
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