Valedictory Address To The D--n Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEF AGHGADBF BIJKLDMF ABNBODPF AQPQHDRF AGSGRTUF ABRBRDQF| John Alexander Frere John | A |
| When we were first acquent | B |
| You lectured us as Freshmen | C |
| In the holy term of Lent | B |
| But now you re gettin bald John | A |
| Your end is drawing near | D |
| And I think we d better say Goodbye | E |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
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| John Alexander Frere John | A |
| How swiftly Time has flown | G |
| The weeks that you refused us | H |
| Are now no more your own | G |
| Tho Time was in your hand John | A |
| You lingered out the year | D |
| That Grace might more abound unto | B |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
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| There s young Monro of Trinity | B |
| And Hunter bold of Queen s | I |
| Who spurn the chapel system | J |
| And vex the souls of Deans | K |
| But all their petty squabbles | L |
| More ludicrous appear | D |
| When we muse on thy departed form | M |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
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| There s many better man John | A |
| That scorns the scoffing crew | B |
| But keeps with fond affection | N |
| The notes he got from you | B |
| Why he was out of College | O |
| Till two o clock or near | D |
| The Senior Dean requests to know | P |
| Yours truly J A Frere | F |
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| John Alexander Frere John | A |
| I wonder what you mean | Q |
| By mixing up your name so | P |
| With me and with The Dean | Q |
| Another Don may dean us | H |
| But ne er again we fear | D |
| Shall we receive such notes as yours | R |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
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| The Lecture Room no more John | A |
| Shall hear thy drowsy tone | G |
| No more shall men in Chapel | S |
| Bow down before thy throne | G |
| But Shillington with meekness | R |
| The oracle shall hear | T |
| That set St Mary's all to sleep | U |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
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| Then once before we part John | A |
| Let all be clean forgot | B |
| Our scandalous inventions | R |
| Thy note lets prized or not | B |
| For under all conventions | R |
| The small man lived sincere | D |
| The kernel of the Senior Dean | Q |
| John Alexander Frere | F |
James Clerk Maxwell
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