Cases - Dashwood V. Jermyn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCAADDEEBAFGHHAAIIJK LLMMNNOOPPQQNNRRRRSS OOAARRRROOBCRRCCRRRR CCRRTTUUVV| Chancery Division | A |
| - | |
| Captain Dashwood who had been | B |
| In the service of the Queen | C |
| Sick of Eyes front and Attention | A |
| Came to London on his pension | A |
| At the Portland as he stayed | D |
| Firm the friendship that he made | D |
| With one William Richards who | E |
| Put up at the Portland too | E |
| Passed six years then he was wrapped in | B |
| Love's embraces vanquished captain | A |
| Yes he cried I will no bar shall | F |
| Stop my wedding Edith Marshall | G |
| But there was a bar 'twas that | H |
| He was poorer than a rat | H |
| Indian pensions do not run | A |
| More than just enough for one | A |
| Edith too had not a cent | I |
| Who would pay the rates and rent | I |
| Two more years and Richards moved | J |
| He perchance had sometime loved | K |
| Promised them an income clear | L |
| 'Twas five hundred pounds a year | L |
| For his life when he was dead | M |
| Then ten thousand pounds instead | M |
| This to Dashwood in a letter | N |
| Wrote he deeming it was better | N |
| They should marry soon while he | O |
| Lived their happiness to see | O |
| 'Twas a modest sum but marriage | P |
| May be blest without a carriage | P |
| Forty pounds a month and more | Q |
| Keep the wolf from near the door | Q |
| So they wed for worse or better | N |
| On the faith of Richards' letter | N |
| Scarcely was a quarter's payment | R |
| Due when mourning was their raiment | R |
| Richards died Alas no cash would | R |
| Find its way to Captain Dashwood | R |
| Dashwood's head began to swim | S |
| Not a shilling left to him | S |
| Ha I'll have it still cried he | O |
| Justice dwells in Chancery | O |
| So the case was straightway taken | A |
| To the court of V C Bacon | A |
| Vainly Dashwood cash expended | R |
| The executors defended | R |
| Claiming that what Richards wrote | R |
| Was not worth a five pound note | R |
| First because the dead testator | O |
| Well not wisely loved the cratur | O |
| More than that had often been | B |
| In delirium tremens seen | C |
| Secondly because he signed | R |
| When he did not know his mind | R |
| Third because pollicitation | C |
| Is not good consideration | C |
| Law of justice independent | R |
| Gave its judgment for defendant | R |
| Poorer than he was at first | R |
| That unhappy plaintiff cursed | R |
| With a special satisfaction | C |
| Cursed the day he brought his action | C |
| Would that he'd in India tarried | R |
| Would that he had never married | R |
| He alas is tied for life | T |
| Pauper to a pauper wife | T |
| Scarce consoled that on his name | U |
| Equity reports shower fame | U |
| Bearing down to endless ages | V |
| Dashwood's story on their pages | V |
James Williams
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