Jacob Homnium-s Hoss Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBB BCDCEC BFGFBF BHBHIH GHBHHH HBJBHB HKBKHK LBHB B BBMBHB KBMB BHBHMH LNMNOP MBHB B HQHQH BBLBBB BHBHBH OLHLBL BBMBHB MHBHBH OBLBBB RBBBBB BBHBMB MBMBBB BMHMMM| One sees in Viteall Yard | A |
| Vere pleacemen do resort | B |
| A wenerable hinstitute | B |
| 'Tis call'd the Pallis Court | B |
| A gent as got his i on it | B |
| I think 'twill make some sport | B |
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| The natur of this Court | B |
| My hindignation riles | C |
| A few fat legal spiders | D |
| Here set spin their viles | C |
| To rob the town theyr privlege is | E |
| In a hayrea of twelve miles | C |
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| The Judge of this year Court | B |
| Is a mellitary beak | F |
| He knows no more of Lor | G |
| Than praps he does of Greek | F |
| And prowides hisself a deputy | B |
| Because he cannot speak | F |
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| Four counsel in this Court | B |
| Misnamed of Justice sits | H |
| These lawyers owes their places to | B |
| Their money not their wits | H |
| And there's six attornies under them | I |
| As here their living gits | H |
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| These lawyers six and four | G |
| Was a livin at their ease | H |
| A sendin of their writs abowt | B |
| And droring in the fees | H |
| When their erose a cirkimstance | H |
| As is like to make a breeze | H |
| - | |
| It now is some monce since | H |
| A gent both good and trew | B |
| Possest an ansum oss vith vich | J |
| He didn know what to do | B |
| Peraps he did not like the oss | H |
| Peraps he was a scru | B |
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| This gentleman his oss | H |
| At Tattersall's did lodge | K |
| There came a wulgar oss dealer | B |
| This gentleman's name did fodge | K |
| And took the oss from Tattersall's | H |
| Wasn that a artful dodge | K |
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| One day this gentleman's groom | L |
| This willain did spy out | B |
| A mounted on this oss | H |
| A ridin him about | B |
| 'Get out of that there oss you rogue ' | - |
| Speaks up the groom so stout | B |
| - | |
| The thief was cruel whex'd | B |
| To find himself so pinn'd | B |
| The oss began to whinny | M |
| The honest gloom he grinn'd | B |
| And the raskle thief got off the oss | H |
| And cut avay like vind | B |
| - | |
| And phansy with what joy | K |
| The master did regard | B |
| His dearly bluvd lost oss again | M |
| Trot in the stable yard | B |
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| Who was this master good | B |
| Of whomb I makes these rhymes | H |
| His name is Jacob Homnium Exquire | B |
| And if I'd committed crimes | H |
| Good Lord I wouldn't ave that mann | M |
| Attack me in the Times | H |
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| Now shortly after the groomb | L |
| His master's oss did take up | N |
| There came a livery man | M |
| This gentleman to wake up | N |
| And he handed in a little bill | O |
| Which hangered Mr Jacob | P |
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| For two pound seventeen | M |
| This livery man eplied | B |
| For the keep of Mr Jacob's oss | H |
| Which the thief had took to ride | B |
| 'Do you see anythink green in me ' | - |
| Mr Jacob Homnium cried | B |
| - | |
| 'Because a raskle chews | H |
| My oss away to robb | Q |
| And goes tick at your Mews | H |
| For seven and fifty bobb | Q |
| Shall I be call'd to pay It is | H |
| A iniquitious Jobb ' | - |
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| Thus Mr Jacob cut | B |
| The conwasation short | B |
| The livery man went ome | L |
| Detummingd to ave sport | B |
| And summingsd Jacob Homnium Exquire | B |
| Into the Pallis Court | B |
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| Pore Jacob went to Court | B |
| A Counsel for to fix | H |
| And choose a barrister out of the four | B |
| An attorney of the six | H |
| And there he sor these men of Lor | B |
| And watch'd 'em at their tricks | H |
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| The dreadful day of trile | O |
| In the Pallis Court did come | L |
| The lawyers said their say | H |
| The Judge look'd wery glum | L |
| And then the British Jury cast | B |
| Pore Jacob Hom ni um | L |
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| O a weary day was that | B |
| For Jacob to go through | B |
| The debt was two seventeen | M |
| Which he no mor owed than you | B |
| And then there was the plaintives costs | H |
| Eleven pound six and two | B |
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| And then there was his own | M |
| Which the lawyers they did fix | H |
| At the wery moderit figgar | B |
| Of ten pound one and six | H |
| Now Evins bless the Pallis Court | B |
| And all its bold ver dicks | H |
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| I cannot settingly tell | O |
| If Jacob swaw and cust | B |
| At aving for to pay this sumb | L |
| But I should think he must | B |
| And av drawn a cheque for L s d | B |
| With most igstreme disgust | B |
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| O Pallis Court you move | R |
| My pitty most profound | B |
| A most emusing sport | B |
| You thought it I'll be bound | B |
| To saddle hup a three pound debt | B |
| With two and twenty pound | B |
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| Good sport it is to you | B |
| To grind the honest pore | B |
| To pay their just or unjust debts | H |
| With eight hundred per cent for Lor | B |
| Make haste and get your costes in | M |
| They will not last much mor | B |
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| Come down from that tribewn | M |
| Thou shameless and Unjust | B |
| Thou Swindle picking pockets in | M |
| The name of Truth august | B |
| Come down thou hoary blasphemy | B |
| For die thou shalt and must | B |
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| And go it Jacob Homnium | B |
| And ply your iron pen | M |
| And rise up Sir John Jervis | H |
| And shut me up that den | M |
| That sty for fattening lawyers in | M |
| On the bones of honest men | M |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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