A Case Of Libel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DDDD CDDD DCDC DDDD DDDD DDDD DDDD EFFF GDGD HFIF JKJK DDDD GAGA LFLF FAFA| The greater the truth the worse the libel | A |
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| A certain Sprite who dwells below | B |
| 'Twere a libel perhaps to mention where | C |
| Came up incog some years ago | B |
| To try for a change the London air | C |
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| So well he lookt and drest and talkt | D |
| And hid his tail and horns so handy | D |
| You'd hardly have known him as he walkt | D |
| From C e or any other Dandy | D |
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| His horns it seems are made to unscrew | C |
| So he has but to take them out of the socket | D |
| And just as some fine husbands do | D |
| Conveniently clap them into his pocket | D |
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| In short he lookt extremely natty | D |
| And even contrived to his own great wonder | C |
| By dint of sundry scents from Gattie | D |
| To keep the sulphurous hogo under | C |
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| And so my gentleman hoofed about | D |
| Unknown to all but a chosen few | D |
| At White's and Crockford's where no doubt | D |
| He had many post obits falling due | D |
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| Alike a gamester and a wit | D |
| At night he was seen with Crockford's crew | D |
| At morn with learned dames would sit | D |
| So past his time 'twixt black and blue | D |
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| Some wisht to make him an M P | D |
| But finding Wilks was also one he | D |
| Swore in a rage he'd be damned if he | D |
| Would ever sit in one house with Johnny | D |
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| At length as secrets travel fast | D |
| And devils whether he or she | D |
| Are sure to be found out at last | D |
| The affair got wind most rapidly | D |
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| The Press the impartial Press that snubs | E |
| Alike a fiend's or an angel's capers | F |
| Miss Paton's soon as Beelzebub's | F |
| Fired off a squib in the morning papers | F |
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| We warn good men to keep aloof | G |
| From a grim old Dandy seen about | D |
| With a fire proof wig and a cloven hoof | G |
| Thro' a neat cut Hoby smoking out | D |
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| Now the Devil being gentleman | H |
| Who piques himself on well bred dealings | F |
| You may guess when o'er these lines he ran | I |
| How much they hurt and shockt his feelings | F |
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| Away he posts to a Man of Law | J |
| And 'twould make you laugh could you have seen 'em | K |
| As paw shook hand and hand shook paw | J |
| And 'twas hail good fellow well met between 'em | K |
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| Straight an indictment was preferred | D |
| And much the Devil enjoyed the jest | D |
| When asking about the Bench he heard | D |
| That of all the Judges his own was Best | D |
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| In vain Defendant proffered proof | G |
| That Plaintiff's self was the Father of Evil | A |
| Brought Hoby forth to swear to the hoof | G |
| And Stultz to speak to the tail of the Devil | A |
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| The Jury saints all snug and rich | L |
| And readers of virtuous Sunday papers | F |
| Found for the Plaintiff on hearing which | L |
| The Devil gave one of his loftiest capers | F |
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| For oh 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies | F |
| As this wily fiend is named in the Bible | A |
| To find it settled by laws so wise | F |
| That the greater the truth the worse the libel | A |
Thomas Moore
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