Law And Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE FGFG HIJH DDDD FEFE EDED DKDK LDLD EEEE DMDM| In days of old did law and rime | A |
| A common pathway follow | B |
| For Themis in the mythic time | A |
| Was sister of Apollo | B |
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| The Hindu statutes tripped in feet | C |
| As daintily as Dryads | D |
| And law in Wales to be complete | C |
| Was versified in triads | D |
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| The wise Alfonso of Castile | B |
| Composed his code in metre | E |
| Thereby to make its flavour feel | B |
| A little bit the sweeter | E |
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| But law and rime were found to be | F |
| A trifle inconsistent | G |
| And now in statutes poetry | F |
| Is wholly non existent | G |
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| Still here and there some advocate | H |
| Before his fellows know it | I |
| Has had bestowed on him by fate | J |
| The laurel of the poet | H |
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| Let him who has been honoured so | D |
| In truth a rara avis | D |
| Find precedents in Cicero | D |
| And our Chief Justice Davis | D |
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| And more than all in Cino he | F |
| So plaintive a narrator | E |
| Of fair Selvaggia's cruelty | F |
| Won fame as a glossator | E |
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| Let him remember Thomas More | E |
| And Scott and Alciatus | D |
| And Grotius with an ample store | E |
| Of most divine afflatus | D |
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| But let him if his bread and cheese | D |
| Depend on his profession | K |
| Bethink him that the art of these | D |
| Was not their sole possession | K |
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| The stream that flows from Helicon | L |
| Is scarcely a Pactolus | D |
| A richer prize is theirs who con | L |
| Dull treatises on dolus | D |
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| 'Tis well that some bold spirits dare | E |
| To cut themselves asunder | E |
| From bonds of law like old Moli re | E |
| While lawyers gaze in wonder | E |
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| The world had been a poorer place | D |
| Had Goethe lived by pleading | M |
| Or Tasso won a hopeless case | D |
| With Ariosto leading | M |
James Williams
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