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Judex Judicatus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEFFGGHHIIJ KLLMMNN OOPPQQRRSTUUVV

Judge Armstrong when the poor have sought your aidA
To be released from vows that they have madeA
In haste and leisurely repented youB
As stern as Rhadamanthus Minos tooB
And AEeacus have drawn your fierce brows downC
And petrified them with a moral frownC
With iron faced rigor you have made them runD
The gauntlet of publicity each HunD
Or Vandal of the public press allowedE
To throw their households open to the crowdE
And bawl their secret bickerings aloudE
When Wealth before you suppliant appearsF
Bang go the doors and open fly your earsF
The blinds are drawn the lights diminished burnG
Lest eyes too curious should look and learnG
That gold refines not sweetens not a lifeH
Of conjugal brutality and strifeH
That vice is vulgar though it gilded shineI
Upon the curve of a judicial spineI
The veiled complainant's whispered evidenceJ
The plain collusion and the no defenseK
The sealed exhibits and the secret pleaL
The unrecorded and unseen decreeL
The midnight signature and chink chink chinkM
Nay pardon upright Judge I did but thinkM
I heard that sound abhorred of honest menN
No doubt it was the scratching of your penN
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O California long enduring landO
Where Judges fawn upon the Golden HandO
Proud of such service to that rascal thingP
As slaves would blush to render to a kingP
Judges of judgment destitute and heartQ
Of conscience conscious only by the smartQ
From the recoil so insight is enlargedR
Of duty accidentally dischargedR
Invoking still a 'song o' sixpence' fromS
The Scottish fiddle of each lusty palmT
Thy Judges California skilled to playU
This silent music through the livelong dayU
Perform obsequious before the richV
And still the more they scratch the more they itchV

Ambrose Bierce



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