All black and blue, like cloud and skies,

Next day that proctor's face was seen;

Bruised were his eyebrows, bruised his eyes,

Bruised was his nose and pummelled mien.

So dire a case, such black disgrace,

Since Oxford was had never been;

That undergrad took change of air

At the suggestion of the dean.

This is taken from Odd Echoes from Oxford, 1872, and is a parody on The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua, which was also in the 1842 collection.

In a little volume by C. S. Calverley entitled "Fly Leaves," (George Bell & Sons, 1878) there are several clever parodies, and one, entitled Wanderers, is an especially happy imitation of the style of Tennyson's Brook:—