The Horrible History Of Jones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHDIIJKLL MMNOOPDEOOQQRRSSSSSS JJDSSSSS SSTTSSJones had a dog it had a chain | A |
Not often worn not causing pain | A |
But as the I K L had passed | B |
Their 'Unleashed Cousins Act' at last | B |
Inspectors took the chain away | C |
Whereat the canine barked 'Hooray ' | D |
At which of course the S P U | E |
Whose Nervous Motorists' Bill was through | E |
Were forced to give the dog in charge | F |
For being Audibly at Large | F |
None you will say were now annoyed | G |
Save haply Jones the yard was void | G |
But something being in the lease | H |
About 'alarms to aid the police ' | D |
The U S U annexed the yard | I |
For having no sufficient guard | I |
Now if there's one condition | J |
The C C P are strong upon | K |
It is that every house one buys | L |
Must have a yard for exercise | L |
So Jones as tenant was unfit | M |
His state of health was proof of it | M |
Two doctors of the T T U 's | N |
Told him his legs from long disuse | O |
Were atrophied and saying 'So | O |
From step to higher step we go | P |
Till everything is New and True ' | D |
They cut his legs off and withdrew | E |
You know the E T S T 's views | O |
Are stronger than the T T U 's | O |
And soon as one may say took wing | Q |
The Arms though not the Man I sing | Q |
To see him sitting limbless there | R |
Was more than the K K could bear | R |
'In mercy silence with all speed | S |
That mouth there are no hands to feed | S |
What cruel sentimentalist | S |
O Jones would doom thee to exist | S |
Clinging to selfish Selfhood yet | S |
Weak one Such reasoning might upset | S |
The Pump Act and the accumulation | J |
Of all constructive legislation | J |
Let us construct you up a bit ' | D |
The head fell off when it was hit | S |
Then words did rise and honest doubt | S |
And four Commissioners sat about | S |
Whether the slash that left him dead | S |
Cut off his body or his head | S |
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An author in the Isle of Wight | S |
Observed with unconcealed delight | S |
A land of just and old renown | T |
Where Freedom slowly broadened down | T |
From Precedent to Precedent | S |
And this I think was what he meant | S |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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