Professor Tait, Loquitur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEFGFGHIHIJBJB| Will mounted ebonite disk | A |
| On smooth unyielding bearing | B |
| When turned about with notion brisk | A |
| Nor excitation sparing | B |
| Affect the primitive repose | C |
| Of and in a wire | D |
| So that while either downward flows | C |
| The other upwards shall aspire | E |
| Describe the form and size of coil | F |
| And other things that we may need | G |
| Think not about increase of toil | F |
| Involved in work at double speed | G |
| I can no more my pen is bad | H |
| It catches in the roughened page | I |
| But answer us and make us glad | H |
| THOU ANTI DISTANCE ACTION SAGE | I |
| Yet have I still a thousand things to say | J |
| But work of other kinds is pressing | B |
| So your petitioner will ever pray | J |
| That your defence be triple messing | B |
James Clerk Maxwell
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