The Minneapolis Case Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHGGIIJJ KKLLMMLLNNJJBBOOJJKK PPDDJJQQRRLLJJJJSTBB| Tried in Minnesota in | A |
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| Kind reader tarry here nor miss | B |
| The law of Minneapolis | B |
| There was a carpenter called Brown | C |
| A citizen of that great town | C |
| Who stood his inexpressive she | D |
| A dollar's worth of comedy | D |
| Was it a Gaiety burlesque | E |
| Or labour of Norwegian desk | E |
| Or did they spout in stagey tones | F |
| Morality by H A Jones | F |
| Or tear romance to rags and set it | G |
| In heavy platitudes by Pettit | G |
| I know not and it matters not | H |
| The subject I have clean forgot | H |
| Sufficient that the pair did sit | G |
| In expectation in the pit | G |
| An expectation not fulfilled | I |
| 'Twas otherwise by fortune willed | I |
| Before this loving couple sat | J |
| In solitary state a hat | J |
| A hat I say for in their wonder | K |
| They never noticed what was under | K |
| The wearer must have been a human | L |
| But might have been a man or woman | L |
| 'Twas like a mountain crowned with trees | M |
| Amid the pathless Pyrenees | M |
| Or like a garden planned by Paxton | L |
| Or colophon designed by Caxton | L |
| So intricate the work and flowers | N |
| Were trained to climb its soaring towers | N |
| Convolvulus and candytuft | J |
| And 'mid them water wagtails stuffed | J |
| Such splendour never yet I wis | B |
| Had shone in Minneapolis | B |
| But Brown was in a sore dilemma | O |
| A dollar he had paid for Emma | O |
| To see a play and not a hat | J |
| A dollar it was dear at that | J |
| And Emma disappointment racked her | K |
| She never saw a single actor | K |
| So Brown with visage thunder black | P |
| Demanded both his dollars back | P |
| The man who took the cash said Sonny | D |
| Our rule is not to give back money | D |
| But if you'll come another night | J |
| Maybe you'll get a better sight | J |
| So Brown went home and nursed his sorrow | Q |
| His writ he issued on the morrow | Q |
| A hundred dollars was his claim | R |
| And the young lady claimed the same | R |
| The case was argued on revision | L |
| Of pleadings this was the decision | L |
| The theatre's defence is bad | J |
| Brown paid for what he never had | J |
| He paid when in the pit he sat | J |
| To see a play and not a hat | J |
| To bring defendants to their senses | S |
| I find for plaintiffs with expenses | T |
| Justiti columna sis | B |
| Wise judge of Minneapolis | B |
James Williams
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