The M.a. Degree. After Wordsworth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFG HHIIJJKLMM NOPPQQRRAA| It was a phantom of delight | A |
| When first it gleamed upon my sight | A |
| A scholarly distinction sent | B |
| To be a student's ornament | C |
| The hood was rich beyond compare | D |
| The gown was a unique affair | D |
| By this by that my mind was drawn | E |
| Then in my academic dawn | E |
| A dancing shape an image gay | F |
| Before me then was my M A | G |
| - | |
| I saw it upon nearer view | H |
| A glory yet a bother too | H |
| For I perceived that I should be | I |
| Involved in much Philosophy | I |
| A branch in which I could but meet | J |
| Works that were neither light nor sweet | J |
| In Mathematics not too good | K |
| For human nature's daily food | L |
| And Classics rendered in the styles | M |
| Of Kelly Bohn and Dr Giles | M |
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| And now I own with some small spleen | N |
| A most confounded ass I've been | O |
| The glory seems an empty breath | P |
| And I am nearly bored to death | P |
| With Reason Consciousness and Will | Q |
| And other things beyond my skill | Q |
| Discussed in books all darkly planned | R |
| And more in number than the sand | R |
| Yet that M A still haunts my sight | A |
| With something of its former light | A |
Robert Fuller Murray
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