The Society Upon The Stanislaus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLLL MNOO PPQQ AABCI reside at Table Mountain and my name is Truthful James | A |
I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games | A |
And I'll tell in simple language what I know about the row | B |
That broke up our Society upon the Stanislow | C |
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But first I would remark that it is not a proper plan | D |
For any scientific gent to whale his fellow man | D |
And if a member don't agree with his peculiar whim | E |
To lay for that same member for to put a head on him | E |
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Now nothing could be finer or more beautiful to see | F |
Than the first six months' proceedings of that same Society | F |
Till Brown of Calaveras brought a lot of fossil bones | G |
That he found within a tunnel near the tenement of Jones | G |
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Then Brown he read a paper and he reconstructed there | H |
From those same bones an animal that was extremely rare | H |
And Jones then asked the Chair for a suspension of the rules | I |
Till he could prove that those same bones was one of his lost mules | I |
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Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile and said he was at fault | J |
It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones's family vault | J |
He was a most sarcastic man this quiet Mr Brown | K |
And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town | K |
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Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent | L |
To say another is an ass at least to all intent | L |
Nor should the individual who happens to be meant | L |
Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent | L |
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Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order when | M |
A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen | N |
And he smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor | O |
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more | O |
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For in less time than I write it every member did engage | P |
In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age | P |
And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was a sin | Q |
Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in | Q |
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And this is all I have to say of these improper games | A |
For I live at Table Mountain and my name is Truthful James | A |
And I've told in simple language what I know about the row | B |
That broke up our Society upon the Stanislow | C |
Bret Harte (francis)
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