Song Of The Edinburgh Academician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBDB EBFB GBDB HGGG IGEG| If ony here has got an ear | A |
| He'd better tak a haud o me | B |
| Or I'll begin wi roarin din | C |
| To cheer our old Academy | B |
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| Dear old Academy | B |
| Queer old Academy | B |
| A merry lot we were I wot | D |
| When at the old Academy | B |
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| There's some may think me crouse wi drink | E |
| And some may think it mad o me | B |
| But ither some will gladly come | F |
| And cheer our old Academy | B |
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| Some set their hopes on Kings and Popes | G |
| But o the sons of Adam he | B |
| Was first without the smallest doubt | D |
| That built the first Academy | B |
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| Let Pedants seek for scraps of Greek | H |
| Their lingo to Macadamize | G |
| Gie me the sense without pretence | G |
| That comes o Scots Academies | G |
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| Let scholars all both grit and small | I |
| Of Learning mourn the sad demise | G |
| That's as they think but we will drink | E |
| Good luck to Scots Academies | G |
James Clerk Maxwell
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