Reply To The Above, By F.w.f. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFEG HIHIIJIJ KLKLMIMI NONOPOPO QRQREDED| i Te quoque vatem dicunt pastores VIRGIL i | A |
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| O Maxwell if by reason s strength | B |
| And studying of Babbage | C |
| You have transformed yourself at length | B |
| Into a mental cabbage | D |
| And if I've proved myself a lark | E |
| At morn and blushing even | F |
| By soaring like a music spark | E |
| Thro sapphire fields of Heaven | G |
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| Our diverse fates are now reversed | H |
| By strange metempsychosis | I |
| Into a cabbage I have burst | H |
| And scorn poetic posies | I |
| But you a lark with twinkling wings | I |
| O er violet banks are soaring | J |
| Your voice the dewy rose cloud rings | I |
| While Statics me are boring | J |
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| Yet cabbage as I will on earth | K |
| My roots I cannot anchor | L |
| For at my mathematic birth | K |
| Was also born a canker | L |
| It soon will gnaw my roots away | M |
| But when I weigh a ch nix | I |
| I ll freely soar to realms of day | M |
| An emerald cabbage Ph nix | I |
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| Then talk not of the Poll to me | N |
| I hate detest and scorn it | O |
| I am as earnest as a bee | N |
| But savage as a hornet | O |
| And if they pluck me I will drown | P |
| Each pedant in a sonnet | O |
| And of their pluckings make a crown | P |
| With golden plumes upon it | O |
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| So if my cabbage growth be slow | Q |
| I'll try to be a carrot | R |
| Or still remain a lark but know | Q |
| I'll not be Poll or Parrot | R |
| Then if I fall beneath the mark | E |
| I ll shout with accent savage | D |
| It is a lark to be a lark | E |
| Tis green to be a cabbage | D |
James Clerk Maxwell
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