To The Additional Examiner For 1875 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCDBEEEFGGF EEEHGGIHJJJKGGK AAALAAALMMMKNNK EEEOAAAOEEEPQRPQueen Cram went straying | A |
Where Tait was swaying | A |
In just hands weighing | A |
With care immense | B |
Dry proofs made pleasant | C |
By Routh or Besant | C |
For one who hasn t | D |
Got too much sense | B |
Nor marked how quicker | E |
Than mounts the liquor | E |
In brains made thicker | E |
By College beer | F |
The murderous maiden | G |
Mistake walks laden | G |
With tips forgotten and slips so queer | F |
- | |
How like a spider | E |
She still spreads wider | E |
O er bookwork rider | E |
And problem too | H |
Her flimsy curtain | G |
Of terms uncertain | G |
Till all seems dirt in | I |
The marker s view | H |
For if Cram were not | J |
Which markers spare not | J |
Wise men would care not | J |
To pluck too soon | K |
Seeing all life s season | G |
Of budding reason | G |
Finds good stiff work for a wooden spoon | K |
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As Tait sat joking | A |
And marked while smoking | A |
Still slyly poking | A |
Where jests might hit | L |
She came soft gliding | A |
Her false face hiding | A |
Rich food providing | A |
For Tait s sharp wit | L |
Through symbols tangled | M |
The Wranglers wrangled | M |
Like sweet bells jangled | M |
And out of tune | K |
For though their music | N |
Would soon make you sick | N |
The tides they measure and guide the moon | K |
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Cram found no cover | E |
Wherein to hover | E |
For still above her | E |
Tait held his pen | O |
Which onward creeping | A |
Might find her sleeping | A |
But left her weeping | A |
O er ruined men | O |
For like a blister | E |
Mistake Cram s sister | E |
Would wring and twist her | E |
In awkward ways | P |
Till all the knowledge | Q |
Acquired at College | R |
Had passed from thought in the last six days | P |
James Clerk Maxwell
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