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 UUUOWe took a hundredweight of books | A |
To Windermere between us | B |
Our dons had blessed our studious looks | A |
Had they by chance but seen us | B |
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Maine Blackstone Sandars all were there | C |
And Hallam's Middle Ages | D |
And Austin with his style so rare | C |
And Poste's enticing pages | D |
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We started well the little inn | E |
Was deadly dull and quiet | F |
As dull as Mrs Wood's East Lynne | E |
Or as the verse of Wyatt | F |
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Without distraction thus we read | G |
From nine until eleven | H |
Then rowed and sailed until we fed | G |
On potted char at seven | H |
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Two hours of work We could devote | I |
Next day to recreation | H |
Much illness springs so doctors note | I |
From lack of relaxation | H |
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Let him read law on summer days | J |
Who has a soul that grovels | J |
Better one tale of Thackeray's | J |
Than all Justinian's novels | J |
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At noon we went upon the lake | K |
We could not stand the slowness | J |
Of our lone inn so dined on steak | K |
They called it steak at Bowness | J |
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We wrestled with the steak when lo | L |
Rose Jack in such a hurry | M |
He saw a girl he used to know | L |
In Suffolk or in Surrey | M |
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What matter which to think that she | M |
Should lure him from his duty | M |
For Jack I knew would always be | M |
A very slave to beauty | M |
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And so it proved alas for Jack | N |
Grew taciturn and thinner | O |
Was out all day alone and back | N |
Too often late for dinner | O |
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What could I do His walks and rows | J |
All led to one conclusion | H |
I could not read our work heaven knows | J |
Was nothing but confusion | H |
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Like Jack I went about alone | P |
Saw Wordsworth's writing table | Q |
And made the higher by a stone | P |
The man upon Great Gable | Q |
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At last there came a sudden pause | J |
To all his wanderings solus | J |
He learned what writers on the laws | J |
Of Rome had meant by dolus | J |
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The Suffolk was it Surrey flirt | R |
Without a pang threw over | O |
Poor Jack and all his works like dirt | R |
And caught a richer lover | O |
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We read one morning more to say | J |
We had not been quite idle | Q |
And then to end the arduous day | J |
Enjoyed a swim in Rydal | Q |
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Next day the hundredweight of books | J |
Was packed once more in cases | J |
We left the lakes and hills and brooks | J |
And southward turned our faces | J |
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Three months and then the Oxford Schools | J |
Our unbelieving college | S |
Saw better than ourselves what fools | J |
Pretend sometimes to knowledge | T |
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Curst questions Jack did only one | H |
He gave as his opinion | H |
That of the Roman jurists none | H |
Had lived before Justinian | H |
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I answered two but all I did | U |
Was lacking in discretion | H |
I reckoned guardianship amid | U |
The vitia of possession | H |
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My second shot was wider still | Q |
I held that commodata | U |
Could not attest a pr tor's will | Q |
Because of culpa lata | U |
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We waited fruitlessly that night | U |
There came no blue testamur A | U |
Nor was Jack's heavy heart made light | U |
By that sweet word Amamur | O |
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