Police Reports. Case Of Imposture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL JMJM NENE OJOJ PGPG| Among other stray flashmen disposed of this week | A |
| Was a youngster named Stanley genteelly connected | B |
| Who has lately been passing off coins as antique | A |
| Which have proved to be sham ones tho' long unsuspected | C |
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| The ancients our readers need hardly be told | D |
| Had a coin they called Talents for wholesale demands | E |
| And 'twas some of said coinage this youth was so bold | D |
| As to fancy he'd got God knows how in his hands | E |
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| People took him however like fools at his word | F |
| And these talents all prized at his own valuation | G |
| Were bid for with eagerness even more absurd | F |
| Than has often distinguisht this great thinking nation | G |
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| Talk of wonders one now and then sees advertised | H |
| Black swans Queen Anne farthings or even a child's caul | I |
| Much and justly as all these rare objects are prized | H |
| Stanley's talents outdid them swans farthings and all | J |
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| At length some mistrust of this coin got abroad | K |
| Even quondam believers began much to doubt of it | L |
| Some rung it some rubbed it suspecting a fraud | K |
| And the hard rubs it got rather took the shine out of it | L |
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| Others wishing to break the poor prodigy's fall | J |
| Said 'twas known well to all who had studied the matter | M |
| That the Greeks had not only great talents but small | J |
| And those found on the youngster were clearly the latter | M |
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| While others who viewed the grave farce with a grin | N |
| Seeing counterfeits pass thus for coinage so massy | E |
| By way of a hint to the dolts taken in | N |
| Appropriately quoted Budaeus de Asse | E |
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| In short the whole sham by degrees was found out | O |
| And this coin which they chose by such fine names to call | J |
| Proved a mere lackered article showy no doubt | O |
| But ye gods not the true Attic Talent at all | J |
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| As the impostor was still young enough to repent | P |
| And besides had some claims to a grandee connection | G |
| Their Worships considerate for once only sent | P |
| The young Thimblerig off to the House of Correction | G |
Thomas Moore
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