The Scurril Press Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKK LM LN NNNOOPPNNQQIRNNOOSNO NQQTTNN AN ANNUUOOVV WW XYYIIEEZZA2A2A2XXNNN NB2B2VVC2C2 NNOOEE| OM JONESMITH loquitur I've slept right through | A |
| The night a rather clever thing to do | A |
| How soundly women sleep looks at his wife | B |
| They're all alike The sweetest thing in life | B |
| Is woman when she lies with folded tongue | C |
| Its toil completed and its day song sung | C |
| Thump That's the morning paper What a bore | D |
| That it should be delivered at the door | D |
| There ought to be some expeditious way | E |
| To get it to one By this long delay | E |
| The fizz gets off the news a rap is heard | F |
| That's Jane the housemaid she's an early bird | F |
| She's brought it to the bedroom door good soul | G |
| Gets up and takes it in Upon the whole | G |
| The system's not so bad a one What's here | H |
| Gad if they've not got after listen dear | I |
| To sleeping wife young Gastrotheos Well | J |
| If Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell | J |
| She'll shriek again with laughter seeing how | K |
| They treated Gast with her Yet I'll allow | K |
| 'T is right if he goes dining at The Pup | L |
| With Mrs Thing | M |
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| WIFE briskly waking up | L |
| With her The hussy Yes it serves him right | N |
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| JONESMITH continuing to 'seek the light' | N |
| What's this about old Impycu That's good | N |
| Grip that's the funny man says Impy should | N |
| Be used as a decoy in shooting tramps | O |
| I knew old Impy when he had the 'stamps' | O |
| To buy us all out and he wasn't then | P |
| So bad a chap to have about Grip's pen | P |
| Is just a tickler and the world no doubt | N |
| Is better with it than it was without | N |
| What thirteen ladies Jumping Jove we know | Q |
| Them nearly all who gamble at a low | Q |
| And very shocking game of cards called 'draw' | I |
| O cracky how they'll squirm ha ha haw haw | R |
| Let's see what else wife snores Well I'll be blest | N |
| A woman doesn't understand a jest | N |
| Hello What what the scurvy wretch proceeds | O |
| To take a fling at me condemn him reads | O |
| Tom Jonesmith my name's Thomas vulgar cad Of | S |
| the new Shavings Bank the man's gone mad | N |
| That's libelous I'll have him up for that Has | O |
| had his corns cut Devil take the rat | N |
| What business is 't of his I'd like to know | Q |
| He didn't have to cut them Gods what low | Q |
| And scurril things our papers have become | T |
| You skim their contents and you get but scum | T |
| Here Mary waking wife I've been attacked | N |
| In this vile sheet By Jove it is a fact | N |
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| WIFE reading it How wicked Who do you | A |
| Suppose 't was wrote it | N |
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| JONESMITH Who why who | A |
| But Grip the so called funny man he wrote | N |
| Me up because I'd not discount his note | N |
| Blushes like sunset at the hideous lie | U |
| He'll think of one that's better by and by | U |
| Throws down the paper on the floor and treads | O |
| A lively measure on it kicks the shreds | O |
| And patches all about the room and still | V |
| Performs his jig with unabated will | V |
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| WIFE warbling sweetly like an Elfland horn | W |
| Dear do be careful of that second corn | W |
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| STANLEY | X |
| Noting some great man's composition vile | Y |
| A head of wisdom and a heart of guile | Y |
| A will to conquer and a soul to dare | I |
| Joined to the manners of a dancing bear | I |
| Fools unaccustomed to the wide survey | E |
| Of various Nature's compensating sway | E |
| Untaught to separate the wheat and chaff | Z |
| To praise the one and at the other laugh | Z |
| Yearn all in vain and impotently seek | A2 |
| Some flawless hero upon whom to wreak | A2 |
| The sycophantic worship of the weak | A2 |
| Not so the wise from superstition free | X |
| Who find small pleasure in the bended knee | X |
| Quick to discriminate 'twixt good and bad | N |
| And willing in the king to find the cad | N |
| No reason seen why genius and conceit | N |
| The power to dazzle and the will to cheat | N |
| The love of daring and the love of gin | B2 |
| Should not dwell peaceful in a single skin | B2 |
| To such great Stanley you're a hero still | V |
| Despite your cradling in a tub for swill | V |
| Your peasant manners can't efface the mark | C2 |
| Of light you drew across the Land of Dark | C2 |
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| In you the extremes of character are wed | N |
| To serve the quick and villify the dead | N |
| Hero and clown O man of many sides | O |
| The Muse of Truth adores you and derides | O |
| And sheds impartial the revealing ray | E |
| Upon your head of gold and feet of clay | E |
Ambrose Bierce
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