Animal Magnetism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDCDECFFEEAAEEG GEE BBBBAABBBBBBEEAABBBA BCHHAACCGG BBEEEEEEHH| Tho' famed was Mesmer in his day | A |
| Nor less so in ours is Dupotet | A |
| To say nothing of all the wonders done | B |
| By that wizard Dr Elliotson | B |
| When standing as if the gods to invoke he | C |
| Up waves his arm and down drops Okey | C |
| Tho' strange these things to mind and sense | D |
| If you wish still stranger things to see | C |
| If you wish to know the power immense | D |
| Of the true magnetic influence | E |
| Just go to her Majesty's Treasury | C |
| And learn the wonders working there | F |
| And I'll be hanged if you don't stare | F |
| Talk of your animal magnetists | E |
| And that wave of the hand no soul resists | E |
| Not all its witcheries can compete | A |
| With the friendly beckon towards Downing Street | A |
| Which a Premier gives to one who wishes | E |
| To taste of the Treasury loaves and fishes | E |
| It actually lifts the lucky elf | G |
| Thus acted upon above himself | G |
| He jumps to a state of clairvoyance | E |
| And is placeman statesman all at once | E |
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| These effects observe with which I begin | B |
| Take place when the patient's motioned in | B |
| Far different of course the mode of affection | B |
| When the wave of the hand's in the out direction | B |
| The effects being then extremely unpleasant | A |
| As is seen in the case of Lord Brougham at present | A |
| In whom this sort of manipulation | B |
| Has lately produced such inflammation | B |
| Attended with constant irritation | B |
| That in short not to mince his situation | B |
| It has workt in the man a transformation | B |
| That puzzles all human calculation | B |
| Ever since the fatal day which saw | E |
| That pass performed on this Lord of Law | E |
| A pass potential none can doubt | A |
| As it sent Harry Brougham to the right about | A |
| The condition in which the patient has been | B |
| Is a thing quite awful to be seen | B |
| Not that a casual eye could scan | B |
| This wondrous change by outward survey | A |
| It being in fact the interior man | B |
| That's turned completely topsy turvy | C |
| Like a case that lately in reading o'er 'em | H |
| I found in the Acta Eruditorum | H |
| Of a man in whose inside when disclosed | A |
| The whole order of things was found transposed | A |
| By a lusus naturae strange to see | C |
| The liver placed where the heart should be | C |
| And the spleen like Brougham's since laid on the shelf | G |
| As diseased and as much out of place as himself | G |
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| In short 'tis a case for consultation | B |
| If e'er there was one in this thinking nation | B |
| And therefore I humbly beg to propose | E |
| That those savans who mean as the rumor goes | E |
| To sit on Miss Okey's wonderful case | E |
| Should also Lord Parry's case embrace | E |
| And inform us in both these patients' states | E |
| Which ism it is that predominates | E |
| Whether magnetism and somnambulism | H |
| Or simply and solely mountebankism | H |
Thomas Moore
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