The Decimal Point Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFHF HIHICFCF| When 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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