The Princess's Finger-nail: A Tale Of Nonsense Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMNOPQRRSSTTUUEEKK VVWWKKGXYJZZA2A2OEGG FF| All through the Castle of High bred Ease | A |
| Where the chief employment was do as you please | A |
| Spread consternation and wild despair | B |
| The queen was wringing her hands and hair | B |
| The maids of honor were sad and solemn | C |
| The pages looked blank as they stood in column | C |
| The court jester blubbered 'Boo hoo boo hoo' | D |
| The cook in the kitchen dropped tears in the stew | E |
| And all through the castle went sob and wail | F |
| For the princess had broken her finger nail | F |
| The beautiful Princess Red as a Rose | G |
| Bride elect of the Lord High Nose | G |
| Broken her finger nail down to the quick | H |
| No wonder the queen and her court were sick | H |
| Never sorrow so dread before | I |
| Had dared to enter that castle door | I |
| Oh what would my Lord His High Nose say | J |
| When she took off her glove on her wedding day | J |
| The fairest princess in Nonsense Land | K |
| With a broken finger nail on her hand | K |
| 'Twas a terrible terrible accident | L |
| And they called a meeting of parliament | L |
| And never before that royal Court | M |
| Had come such question of grave import | M |
| As 'How could you hurry a nail to grow ' | N |
| And the skill of the kingdom was called to show | O |
| They sent for Monsieur File 'em off | P |
| He smoothed down the corners so ragged and rough | Q |
| They sent for Madame la Diamond Dust | R |
| Who lived on the fingers of upper crust | R |
| They sent for Professor de Chamois Skin | S |
| Who took her powder and rubbed it in | S |
| They sent for the pudgy nurse Fat on the bone | T |
| To bathe her finger in eau de Cologne | T |
| And they called the Court surgeon Monsieur Red Tape | U |
| To hear what he thought of the new nail's shape | U |
| Over the kingdom the telegrams flew | E |
| Which told how the finger nail thrived and grew | E |
| And all through the realm of Nonsense Land | K |
| They offered up prayers for the princess's hand | K |
| At length the glad tidings were heard with a shout | V |
| That the princess's finger nail had grown out | V |
| Pointed and polished and pink and clean | W |
| Befitting the hand of a some day queen | W |
| Salutes were fired all over the land | K |
| By the home guard battery pop gun band | K |
| And great was the joy of my Lord High Nose | G |
| Who straightway ordered his wedding clothes | X |
| And paid his tailor Don Wait for aye | Y |
| Who died of amazement the self same day | J |
| My lord by a jury was judged insane | Z |
| For they said and the truth of the saying was plain | Z |
| That a lord of such very high pedigree | A2 |
| Would never be paying his bills you see | A2 |
| Unless he was out of his head and so | O |
| They locked him up without more ado | E |
| And the beautiful Princess Red as a Rose | G |
| Pined for her lover my Lord High Nose | G |
| Till she entered a convent and took the veil | F |
| And this is the end of my nonsense tale | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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