Justinian At Windermere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IHIH JJJJ KJKJ LMLM MMMM NONO JHJH PQPQ JJJJ RORO JQJQ JJJJ JSJT HHHH UHUH QUQU UUUO

We took a hundredweight of booksA
To Windermere between usB
Our dons had blessed our studious looksA
Had they by chance but seen usB
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Maine Blackstone Sandars all were thereC
And Hallam's Middle AgesD
And Austin with his style so rareC
And Poste's enticing pagesD
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We started well the little innE
Was deadly dull and quietF
As dull as Mrs Wood's East LynneE
Or as the verse of WyattF
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Without distraction thus we readG
From nine until elevenH
Then rowed and sailed until we fedG
On potted char at sevenH
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Two hours of work We could devoteI
Next day to recreationH
Much illness springs so doctors noteI
From lack of relaxationH
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Let him read law on summer daysJ
Who has a soul that grovelsJ
Better one tale of Thackeray'sJ
Than all Justinian's novelsJ
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At noon we went upon the lakeK
We could not stand the slownessJ
Of our lone inn so dined on steakK
They called it steak at BownessJ
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We wrestled with the steak when loL
Rose Jack in such a hurryM
He saw a girl he used to knowL
In Suffolk or in SurreyM
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What matter which to think that sheM
Should lure him from his dutyM
For Jack I knew would always beM
A very slave to beautyM
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And so it proved alas for JackN
Grew taciturn and thinnerO
Was out all day alone and backN
Too often late for dinnerO
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What could I do His walks and rowsJ
All led to one conclusionH
I could not read our work heaven knowsJ
Was nothing but confusionH
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Like Jack I went about aloneP
Saw Wordsworth's writing tableQ
And made the higher by a stoneP
The man upon Great GableQ
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At last there came a sudden pauseJ
To all his wanderings solusJ
He learned what writers on the lawsJ
Of Rome had meant by dolusJ
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The Suffolk was it Surrey flirtR
Without a pang threw overO
Poor Jack and all his works like dirtR
And caught a richer loverO
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We read one morning more to sayJ
We had not been quite idleQ
And then to end the arduous dayJ
Enjoyed a swim in RydalQ
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Next day the hundredweight of booksJ
Was packed once more in casesJ
We left the lakes and hills and brooksJ
And southward turned our facesJ
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Three months and then the Oxford SchoolsJ
Our unbelieving collegeS
Saw better than ourselves what foolsJ
Pretend sometimes to knowledgeT
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Curst questions Jack did only oneH
He gave as his opinionH
That of the Roman jurists noneH
Had lived before JustinianH
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I answered two but all I didU
Was lacking in discretionH
I reckoned guardianship amidU
The vitia of possessionH
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My second shot was wider stillQ
I held that commodataU
Could not attest a pr tor's willQ
Because of culpa lataU
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We waited fruitlessly that nightU
There came no blue testamur AU
Nor was Jack's heavy heart made lightU
By that sweet word AmamurO

James Williams



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