Mutatis Mutandis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBDEEDFGDFGD H I JKKJLCCLCMNBON H F JDDJDAADPAQNAN R L JJJJJMMJJMNJMN R N JAAJNJJNRJJ JJ R N JMMJNRRNDAMDAM R M ARRADMMDNDSNDS R D JNNJJMMJDDDDD J J JTTJADDARNDRND J U JJJJR N MRDMRD R R MDDMJDDJDNDDND J R MRRMMDDMDDRDDR J L JNNJEEEEMMNMMN R J NMMNNMMNDMED E R J ENNENMMNRNERNE R N RNNRNNNNDJNDJN R R JMMJNNNNMTUMTS R N JDDJMDDMEDJEDJ J N MRRME ENMJNMJ J N JMMJDJJDNDJNDJ

The Fool	A
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Here is a tale for children and their grannies	B
There was a fool a man who'd had his chances	C
But missed them somehow lost them just for fancies	B
Tag ends of things with which he'd crammed crannies	B
Of his cracked head as panes are crammed with paper	D
Fragments of song and bits of worthless writing	E
Which he was never weary of reciting	E
Fluttered his mind as night a windy taper	D
A witless fool who lived in some fair Venice	F
Of his own building where he dreamed of Beauty	G
Who swore each weed a flower the sorry pauper	D
This would not do Men said he was a menace	F
To all mankind and as it was their duty	G
Clapped him in prison where he died as proper	D
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II	H
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The Scarecrow	I
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Here is a tale for prelates and for parsons	J
There was a scarecrow once a thing of tatters	K
And sticks and straw to whom men trusted matters	K
Of weighty moment murders thefts and arsons	J
None saw he was a scarecrow Every worship	L
And honour his Men set him in high places	C
And ladies primped their bodies tinged their faces	C
And kneeled to him as slaves to some great Sirship	L
One night a storm none knew it blew to pieces	C
Our jackstraw friend and the sweet air of heaven	M
Knew him no more and was no longer tainted	N
Then learned doctors put him in their theses	B
The State set up his statue and thought even	O
As thought the Church perhaps he should be sainted	N
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III	H
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Service	F
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Here is a tale for proper men and virgins	J
There was a woman once who had a daughter	D
A fair faced wench as stable as is water	D
And frailer than the first spring flower that burgeons	J
She did not need to work but then her mother	D
Thought it more suitable and circumspectly	A
Put her with gentlefolks where indirectly	A
She rose in service as has many another	D
The house she served in soon became divided	P
The wife and husband parted with some scandal	A
But she remained and in the end was married	Q
What happened then You'll say 'The girl decided	N
She loved another 'Nay not so The vandal	A
Wrecked no more homes but lived a life unvaried	N
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IV	R
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The Ape	L
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Here is a tale for maidens and for mothers	J
There was an ape a very prince of monkeys	J
Who capered in the world of fools and flunkies	J
The envy of his set and of all others	J
He was the handbook of all social manners	J
The beau of beaux and simian glass of fashion	M
To whom all folly functioned played at passion	M
And matrimony waved beleaguering banners	J
A girl of girls one God had given graces	J
And beauty more than oft He grants to human	M
Captured the creature and they were united	N
And strange to say she loved him Saw no traces	J
Of ape in him And like a very woman	M
Reformed her countenance and was delighted	N
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V	R
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The Pessimist	N
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Here is a tale for uncles and old aunties	J
There was a man once who denied the Devil	A
Yet in the world saw nothing else but evil	A
A pessimist with face as sour as Dante's	J
Still people praised him men he loathed and hated	N
And cursed beneath his breath for wretched sinners	J
While still he drank with them and ate their dinners	J
And listened to their talk and tolerated	N
At last he wrote a book full of invective	R
And vile abuse of earth and all its nations	J
Denying God and Devil Heaven and Hades	J
Fame followed this 'His was the right perspective '	-
'A great philosopher ' He lost all patience	J
But still went out to dine with Lords and Ladies	J
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VI	R
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An Incident	N
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Here is a tale for men and women teachers	J
There was a girl who'd ceased to be a maiden	M
Who walked by night with heart like Lilith's laden	M
A child of sin anathemaed of preachers	J
She had been lovely once but dye and scarlet	N
On hair and face had ravaged all her beauty	R
Only her eyes still did her girl soul duty	R
Showing the hell that hounded her poor harlot	N
One day a fisherman from out the river	D
Fished her pale body like a branch of willlow	A
Or golden weed self murdered drowned and broken	M
The sight of it had made a strong man shiver	D
And on her poor breast as upon a pillow	A
A picture smiled a baby's like some token	M
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VII	R
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Vindication	M
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Here is a tale for gossips and chaste people	A
There lived a woman once a straight laced lady	R
Whose only love was slander Nothing shady	R
Escaped her vulture eye Like some prim steeple	A
Her course of life pointed to Heaven ever	D
And woe unto the sinner girl or woman	M
Whom love undid She was their fiercest foeman	M
No circumstance excused Misfortune never	D
As she had lived she died The mourners gathered	N
Parson and preacher this one and another	D
And many gossips of most proper carriage	S
Her will was read And then a child was fathered	N
Fat Lechery had his day She'd been a mother	D
A man was heir There'd never been a marriage	S
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VIII	R
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Treasure	D
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Here is a tale for infants and old nurses	J
There was a man who gathered rags and peddled	N
Who lived alone with no one ever meddled	N
And this old man was very fond of verses	J
His house a ruin so the tale rehearses	J
A hovel over run of rats and vermin	M
Not fit for beast to live in Like a sermon	M
Embodying misery and hell and curses	J
There one grey dawn of rain and windy weather	D
They found him dead starved o'er a written paper	D
Beside a dim and half expiring taper	D
It was a play the poor fool'd put together	D
Of gnomes and fairies for his own sad pleasure	D
And folks destroyed it saying 'We seek for treasure '	-
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IX	J
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The Ass	J
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Here is a tale for artists and for writers	J
There was an ass in other words a critic	T
Who brayed and balked and kicked most analytic	T
And waved long ears above his brother smiters	J
He could not tell a rose tree from a thistle	A
But oft mistook the one thing for the other	D
Then wagged his ears most wisely at some brother	D
Sent him his he haw for the Penny Whistle	A
A poet sent his volume to him' kindly	R
Asking for criticism You might know it	N
He made one mouthful of it weed and flower	D
There rose a cry that he had done it blindly	R
'Twas poetry What would he kill a poet	N
Not he The ass had brayed him into power	D
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X	J
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The Cabbage	U
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Here is a tale for any one who wishes	J
There grew a cabbage once among the flowers	J
A plain broad cabbage a good wench whose hours	J
Were kitchen busy with plebeian dishes	J
The rose and lily toilless without mottle	R
Patricians born despised her 'How unpleasant '	-
They cried 'What odour Worse than any peasant	N
Who soils God's air Give us our smelling bottle '	-
There came a gentleman who owned the garden	M
Looking about him at both flower and edible	R
Admiring here and there a simple sinner	D
Who sought some bud to be his heart's sweet warden	M
But passed the flowers and took it seems incredible	R
That cabbage But a man must have his dinner	D
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XI	R
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The Criminal	R
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Here is a tale for all who wish to listen	M
There was a thief who in his cut throat quarter	D
Was hailed as chief he had a way of barter	D
Persuasion masked behind a weapon's glisten	M
That made it cockrow with each good man's riches	J
At last he joined the Brotherhood of Murder	D
And rose in his profession lived a herder	D
Of crime in some dark tavern of the ditches	J
There was a war He went Became a gunner	D
And slew as soldiers should his many a hundred	N
In authorized and most professional manner	D
Here he advanced again Was starred a oner	D
Was captained pensioned and nobody wondered	N
And lived and died respectable as a tanner	D
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XII	J
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Death And The Fool	R
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Here is a tale for any man or woman	M
A fool sought Death and braved him with his bauble	R
Among the graves At last he heard a hobble	R
And something passed him monstrous super human	M
And by a tomb that reared a broken column	M
He heard it stop And then Gargantuan laughter	D
Shattered the hush Deep silence followed after	D
Filled with the stir of bones cadaverous solemn	M
Then said the fool 'Come show thyself old prancer	D
I'll have a bout with thee I too can clatter	D
My wand and motley Come now Death and Folly	R
See who's the better man ' There was no answer	D
Only his bauble broke a serious matter	D
To the poor fool who died of melancholy	R
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XIII	J
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The Bagpipe	L
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Here is a tale for poets and for players	J
There was a bagpipe once that wheezed and whistled	N
And droned vile discords notes that fairly bristled	N
Nasal and harsh outbraying all the brayers	J
And then the thing assumed another bearing	E
Boasted itself an organ of God's making	E
A world enduring instrument Earth shaking	E
Greater than any organ more sky daring	E
To prove which lo upon an elevation	M
It pranced and blew to its own satisfaction	M
Until 'twas heard from Key West far as Fundy	N
But while it piped some schoolboy took occasion	M
There was a blow a sudden sharp impaction	M
The wind bag burst Sic transit gloria mundi	N
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XIV	R
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The Ox	J
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Here is a tale for farmer and for peasant	N
There was an ox who might have ploughed for Jason	M
So strong was he his huge head like a bason	M
A Gothic helmet with enormous crescent	N
Stolid of look and slow of hoof and steady	N
Meek was the beast and born but to be driven	M
Unmindful of the yoke which toil had given	M
Toil with his goad and lash for ever ready	N
One day a bull who was the bullock's neighbor	D
Proud as a sultan haremed with his women	M
Lowed to the ox who had received a beating	E
'You are a fool What have you for your labour	D
Blows and bad food Go to Why don't you show men '	-
The ox was but an ox and went on eating	E
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XV	R
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The Goose	J
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Here is a tale for spinsters at their sewing	E
There was a goose a little gosling surely	N
Who went her goose girl way and looked demurely	N
As every goose should when 'tis wise and knowing	E
Proper was she as every gosling should be	N
And innocent as Margarete or Gretchen	M
And did her duty in the house and kitchen	M
And like a goose was happy as she could be	N
Smug was she with a sleek and dove like dimple	R
Great gooseberry eyes and cheeks out of the dairy	N
A goose aye just a goose a little dumb thing	E
One day the goose was gone The tale is simple	R
She had eloped 'Twas nothing ordinary	N
A married man with children That was something	E
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XVI	R
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The Beast	N
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Here is a tale for sportsmen when at table	R
There was a boar like that Atalanta hunted	N
Who gorged and snored and unmolested grunted	N
His fat way through the world as such able	R
Huge jowled and paunched and porcine limbed and marrowed	N
King of his kind deep in his lair he squatted	N
And round him fames of many maidens rotted	N
Where Licence whelped and Lust her monsters farrowed	N
There came a damsel like the one in Spenser	D
A Britomart as sorcerous as Circe	J
Who pierced him with a tract her spear and ended	N
The beast's career Made him a man a censor	D
Of public morals arbiter of mercy	J
And led him by the nose and called him splendid	N
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XVII	R
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The Owl	R
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Here is a tale for ladies with romances	J
There was an owl composer and musician	M
Who looked as wise as if he had a mission	M
And at all art cast supercilious glances	J
People proclaimed him great because he said it	N
And like the great he never played nor printed	N
His compositions 'though 'twas whispered hinted	N
He'd written something but no one had read it	N
Owl eyed he posed at functions of position	M
Hirsute and eye glassed looking analytic	T
Opening his mouth to worshipping female knowledge	U
And then he married A woman of ambition	M
A singer teacher and a musical critic	T
Just what he wanted He became a college	S
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XVIII	R
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The Toad	N
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Here is a tale to tell to rich relations	J
There was a toad a Calibanic monster	D
In whose squat head ambition had ensconced her	D
Most bloated jewel dear to highest stations	J
He was received though mottled as a lichen	M
In coat and character because the creature	D
Croaked as the devil prompted him or nature	D
And said the right thing both in hall and kitchen	M
To each he sang according to their liking	E
And purred his flattery in the ear of Leisure	D
Cringing attendance on the proud and wealthy	J
One day a crane with features of a Viking	E
Swallowed him whole and did it with great pleasure	D
His system needed such toads kept him healthy	J
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XIX	J
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The Cricket	N
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Here is a tale for those who sing with reason	M
There was a cricket troubadouring fellow	R
Who chirped his lay or zoomed it like a 'cello	R
Day in day out no matter what the season	M
Great was his love for his own violining	E
He never wearied saying 'What performing '	-
And oft when through would ask 'Was not that charming '	-
Then play it over right from the beginning	E
A talent such as his should be rewarded	N
So thought he all unconscious of intention	M
Of any one among the violin sects	J
Until by some one lo he was regarded	N
Lifted examined given special mention	M
And placed within a case with other insects	J
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XX	J
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The Torrent	N
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Here is a tale for workmen and their masters	J
There was a torrent once that down a mountain	M
Flashed its resistless way a foaming fountain	M
Basaltic built 'twixt cataract hewn pilasters	J
Down from its eagle eyrie nearer nearer	D
Its savage beauty born mid rocks and cedars	J
Swept free as tempest wild as mountain leaders	J
Of stars and storms the swiftly moving mirror	D
Men found it out and set to work to tame it	N
Put it to pounding rock and rafting lumber	D
Made it a carrier of the filth of cities	J
Harnessed its joy to engines tried to shame it	N
Saying 'Be civilized ' and piled their cumber	D
Upon it bound it God of all the Pities	J

Madison Julius Cawein

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