How Much Fortunatus Could Do With A Cap Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCEE FFGHIGHIJK KKJJLMNLEE OPKKQNNQRR SSTTTTTKKK JHHHUHHUVW IIXXTKKTUU YYMMHHHHZZ HHHH| Fortunatus a fisherman Dane | A |
| Set out on a sudden for Spain | A |
| Because runs the story | B |
| He'd met with a hoary | B |
| Mysterious sorcerer chap | C |
| Who trouble to save him | D |
| Most thoughtfully gave him | D |
| A magical traveling cap | C |
| I barely believe that the story is true | E |
| But here's what that cap was reported to do | E |
| - | |
| Suppose you were sitting at home | F |
| And you wished to see Paris or Rome | F |
| You'd pick up that bonnet | G |
| You'd carefully don it | H |
| The name of the city you'd call | I |
| And the very next minute | G |
| By Jove you were in it | H |
| Without having started at all | I |
| One moment you sauntered on upper Broadway | J |
| And the next on the Corso or rue de la Paix | K |
| - | |
| Why it beat every journey of Cook's | K |
| Knocked spots out of Baedeker's books | K |
| He stepped from his doorway | J |
| Direct into Norway | J |
| He hopped in a trice to Ceylon | L |
| He saw Madagascar | M |
| Went round by Alaska | N |
| And called on a girl in Luzon | L |
| If they said she'd be down in a moment or two | E |
| He took while he waited a peek at Peru | E |
| - | |
| He could wake up at eight in Siam | O |
| Take his tub if he wanted in Guam | P |
| Eat breakfast in Kansas | K |
| And lunch in Matanzas | K |
| Go out for a walk in Brazil | Q |
| Take tea in Madeira | N |
| Dine on the Riviera | N |
| And smoke his cigar in Seville | Q |
| Go out to the theatre in Vladivostok | R |
| And retire in New York at eleven o'clock | R |
| - | |
| Every tongue he could readily speak | S |
| French German Italian Greek | S |
| Norwegian Bulgarian | T |
| Turkish Bavarian | T |
| Japanese Hindustanee | T |
| Russian and Mexican | T |
| He was a lexicon | T |
| Such as you seldom will see | K |
| His knowledge linguistic gave Ollendorff fits | K |
| And brought a hot flush to the face of Berlitz | K |
| - | |
| He would bow in an intimate way | J |
| To Menelik and to Loubet | H |
| He was frequently beckoned | H |
| By William the Second | H |
| A word of advice to receive | U |
| He talked with bravado | H |
| About the Mikado | H |
| King Oscar Oom Paul the Khedive | U |
| King Victor Emmanuel Second the Shah | V |
| King Edward the Seventh Kwang Su and the Czar | W |
| - | |
| But what did he get from it all | I |
| His wife used to wait in the hall | I |
| When this wandering mortal | X |
| Set foot on the portal | X |
| She always appeared on the scene | T |
| And far from ideally | K |
| Remarked Well I really | K |
| Would like to know where you have been | T |
| Now what is the good of a wandering life | U |
| If you have to tell all that you do to your wife | U |
| - | |
| She'd indulge in a copious cry | Y |
| She'd remark she'd undoubtedly die | Y |
| Or like many another | M |
| Go back to her mother | M |
| And what would the world think of that | H |
| She only grew pleasant | H |
| When offered a present | H |
| Of gloves or a gown or a hat | H |
| And more than his talisman saved him in fare | Z |
| Fortunatus expended in putting things square | Z |
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| - | |
| And The Moral is easily said | H |
| Like our hero you're certain to find | H |
| When such a cap goes on a head | H |
| Retribution will follow behind | H |
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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