The Science Club Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EF F GHGH HHHH HIHI JGKG LMLN HOHO HPHP FQFQ RSRS THUH HVHV WXWXHurrah for the Science Club | A |
Join it ye fourth year men | B |
Join it thou smooth cheeked scrub | A |
Whose years scarce number ten | B |
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Join it divines most grave | C |
Science as all men know | D |
As a friend the Church may save | C |
But may damage her as a foe | D |
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And in any case it is well | E |
If attacking insidious doubt | F |
Or devoting H to H | - |
To know what you're talking about | F |
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Hurrah for the lang nebbit word | G |
Hurrah for the erudite phrase | H |
That in Dura Den shall be heard | G |
That shall echo on Kinkell Braes | H |
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Hurrah for the spoils of the links | H |
The golf ball as well as the daisy | H |
Hurrah for explosions and stinks | H |
To set half the landladies crazy | H |
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Hurrah for the fragments of boulders | H |
Surpassing in size and in weight | I |
To be carried home on the shoulders | H |
And laid on the table in state | I |
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Hurrah for the flying machine | J |
Long buried from sight in a cupboard | G |
With bones that would never have been | K |
Desired of old Mother Hubbard | G |
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Hurrah for the hazardous boat | L |
For the crabs of all kinds to be caught | M |
For the eggs on the surface that float | L |
And the lump sucker curiously wrought | N |
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Hurrah for the filling of tanks | H |
In the shanty down by the shore | O |
For the Royal Society's thanks | H |
With Fellowships flying galore | O |
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Hurrah for discourses on worms | H |
Where one listens and comes away | P |
With a stock of bewildering terms | H |
And nothing whatever to pay | P |
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Hurrah for gadding about | F |
Of a Saturday afternoon | Q |
In the light of research setting out | F |
Coming home in the light of the moon | Q |
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Hurrah for Guardbridge and the mill | R |
Where one learns how paper is made | S |
Hurrah for the samples that fill | R |
One's drawer with the finest cream laid | S |
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Hurrah for the Brewery visit | T |
And beer in liberal doses | H |
In the cause of Science what is it | U |
But inspecting a technical process | H |
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Hurrah for a trip to Dundee | H |
To study the spinning of jute | V |
Hurrah for a restaurant tea | H |
And a sight of the Tay Bridge to boot | V |
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Hurrah after every excursion | W |
To feel one's improving one's mind | X |
With the smallest amount of exertion | W |
And that of the pleasantest kind | X |
Robert Fuller Murray
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