Roman Law Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEEE FGFG HHHH IJIJ KLKL HMHM LMLM| I am a coach in Roman law by fate | A |
| But Nature must have meant me for a poet | B |
| And while I struggle with a rule or date | A |
| Poetic thoughts intrude before I know it | C |
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| The changing sunshine on the summer sea | D |
| Drives forth the law of cessio bonorum | E |
| Peculium castrense speaks to me | E |
| Of Horace and his Dulce et decorum | E |
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| I see the matine bee among the flowers | F |
| Instead of testamentum militare | G |
| And wander far away from agent's powers | F |
| To picture me again some Maud or Mary | G |
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| In truth there is no sequence in the thought | H |
| Why should the title De Societate | H |
| Suggest not trading partners as it ought | H |
| But visions of my last night's valse with Katie | H |
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| But worse than this when I have done my task | I |
| Stern law again asserts her domination | J |
| 'Tis cruel 'mid the new mown hay to bask | I |
| And find one's mind is running on novation | J |
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| Or in the dusk when glow worms light the moss | K |
| To hear the distant voice of Philomela | L |
| Expound the three varieties of dos | K |
| And wax right eloquent about tutela | L |
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| I had a little respite yesterday | H |
| Dining with one who well knew how to dine us | M |
| But when I slept the charm soon fled away | H |
| I dreamed I was a pr tor peregrinus | M |
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| Dismasted in the deep of law I lie | L |
| A poor reward it is to stand confessed as | M |
| The Virgil of the interdict de vi | L |
| The Petrarch of the patria potestas | M |
James Williams
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