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 BMHMMMOne 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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'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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