The Decimal Point Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFHF HIHICFCFWhen first sent to School now the Station was Rugby | A |
I fancied my masters and took to the boys | B |
I thought to myself here 'tis plain I shall snug be | A |
Revolving at last in an orbit of joys | B |
The Alphabet Grecian I quickly could stammer | C |
Nor ran any risk of a jaw out of joint | D |
I waddled sedately through Fatherland Grammar | C |
But own I was floored by the Decimal Point | D |
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Le Roi de Montagnes was my Gallic translation | E |
And soon I was praised by my master who said | F |
I certainly deem that with good education | E |
A Scholarship laurel should circle your head | F |
I revelled in idioms I thrilled at the phrases | G |
I knew how to render avaunt and aroint | F |
But own that I shed many tears on the daisies | H |
Of Rugby when stumped by the Decimal Point | F |
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I mastered the building proceedings of Balbus | H |
And rarely omitted a requisite cum | I |
I never remarked that an equa was albus | H |
And deftly supplied the subjunctive with quum | I |
No canis to me was a dog in the manger | C |
A classic by Fate I was clearly anoint | F |
I own though I ran into desperate danger | C |
When fogged and be fooled by the Decimal Point | F |
Norman Rowland Gale
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