The Country Justice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE FFGG| TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered | A |
| A country justice quite confused appeared | A |
| By them the facts were rendered so obscure | B |
| With which the truth remained he was not sure | B |
| At length completely tired two straws he sought | C |
| Of diff'rent lengths and to the parties brought | C |
| These in his hand he held the plaintiff drew | D |
| So fate decreed the shortest of the two | D |
| On this the other homeward took his way | E |
| To boast how nicely he had gained the day | E |
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| THE bench complained the magistrate replied | F |
| Don't blame I pray 'tis nothing new I've tried | F |
| Courts often judge at hazard in the law | G |
| Without deciding by the longest straw | G |
Jean De La Fontaine
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