The Death Of Euclid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDEFG HIHIJK HHHH HLHLMNMN OOPPQHQHRDRDD SSDDDTDTDD DDUDUD| Euclid we are told is at last dead after two thousand | A |
| years of an immortality that he never much | B |
| deserved The Times Literary Supplement | C |
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| A THRENODY for EUCLID This is he | D |
| Who with his learning made our youth a waste | E |
| Holding our souls in fee | D |
| A god whose high set crystal throne was based | E |
| Beyond the reach of tears | F |
| Deeper than time and his relentless years | G |
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| Come then ye Angle Nymphs and make lament | H |
| Ye little Postulates and all the throng | I |
| Of Definitions with your heads besprent | H |
| In funeral ashes ye who long | I |
| Worshipped the King and followed in his train | J |
| For he is dead and cannot rise again | K |
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| Then from the shapes that beat their breasts and wept | H |
| Soft to the light a gentle Problem stepped | H |
| And lo her clinging robe she swiftly loosed | H |
| And with majestic hands her side produced | H |
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| Sweet Theorem she said and called her mate | H |
| Sweet Theorem be with me at this hour | L |
| How oft together in a dear debate | H |
| We two bore witness to our Sovereign's power | L |
| But he is dead and henceforth all our days | M |
| Are wrapped in gloom | N |
| And we who never ceased to sing his praise | M |
| May weep our lord but cannot call him from his tomb | N |
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| And as they bowed their heads and to and fro | O |
| Wove in a mournful gait their web of woe | O |
| Two sentinels forth came | P |
| Their hearts aflame | P |
| And moved behind the pair | Q |
| Warders we are they cried | H |
| Of these two sisters who were once so fair | Q |
| So joyous in their pride | H |
| And now their massy shields they lifted high | R |
| Embossed with letters three | D |
| And though a mist of tears bedimmed each eye | R |
| The sorrowing Nymphs could see | D |
| Q E and F on one and on the other Q E D | D |
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| But on a sudden with a hideous noise | S |
| Of joy and laughter rushed a rout of boys | S |
| And all the mourners in affright | D |
| Scattered to left and right | D |
| Problems and Theorems and Angles too | D |
| Postulates Definitions Circles Planes | T |
| A jibbering crew | D |
| With all their hoary gains | T |
| Of knowledge from their monarch dead | D |
| Into the outer darkness shrieking fled | D |
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| And now with festal dance and laughter loud | D |
| Broke in the boyish and intruding crowd | D |
| Nor did they fail | U |
| Seeing that all the painful throng was sped | D |
| To let high mirth prevail | U |
| And raise the song of joy for EUCLID dead | D |
R. C. Lehmann
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