Molecular Evolution Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GHIHJKCK ILGLAMNM OPOPQRQR| At quite uncertain times and places | A |
| The atoms left their heavenly path | B |
| And by fortuitous embraces | C |
| Engendered all that being hath | B |
| And though they seem to cling together | D |
| And form associations here | E |
| Yet soon or late they burst their tether | D |
| And through the depths of space career | F |
| - | |
| So we who sat oppressed with science | G |
| As British asses wise and grave | H |
| Are now transformed to wild Red Lions | I |
| As round our prey we ramp and rave | H |
| Thus by a swift metamorphosis | J |
| Wisdom turns wit and science joke | K |
| Nonsense is incense to our noses | C |
| For when Red Lions speak they smoke | K |
| - | |
| Hail Nonsense dry nurse of Red Lions | I |
| From thee the wise their wisdom learn | L |
| From thee they cull those truths of science | G |
| Which into thee again they turn | L |
| What combinations of ideas | A |
| Nonsense alone can wisely form | M |
| What sage has half the power that she has | N |
| To take the towers of Truth by storm | M |
| - | |
| Yield then ye rules of rigid reason | O |
| Dissolve thou too too solid sense | P |
| Melt into nonsense for a season | O |
| Then in some nobler form condense | P |
| Soon all too soon the chilly morning | Q |
| This flow of soul will crystallize | R |
| Then those who Nonsense now are scorning | Q |
| May learn too late where wisdom lies | R |
James Clerk Maxwell
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