Sidney Beck Poet Couplet

Experiment With Boiling Water

EXPERIMENT WITH BOILING WATER

Let your dubious interest in science not diminish;
Just watch the water-boil process from start to finish.
Gas flame is  lit and well-adjusted:
As  a scientist you're hot as  mustard.
See the  condensation on glass above water level ?  
Soon you’ll have  covered base of glass kettle  
With  the small bubbles of trapped steam you distended.
They became  lines of moving  bubbles and  ascended 
Like watery snakes looking for their surface goal
And hissing as they failed to find it in  shoals.
Now they’ll rise ever more frequently, ever faster  - 
The rate is chosen by the experiment master.
The  slight  hisses become   rumbles
Kettle rattle loudens as  your gas flame tumbles.
Space above water level fills with steam -
The boiling makes scientist-eyes gleam.
A whistle treble starts to tremble 
Then, gaining courage, it will soon resemble 
The olden-days police summons pitch
Of ultra-high  G  or A-sharp, very rich.
I should  stop now  before I have  trouble with the law 
Of physics – for the water boiled away as we saw:
And the kettle dried out.
The experiment was over, we had left no doubt.

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