The Humane Mikado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDAEAAE FFFFEEEE GHIIHIJIIJKIHHIIIHHI FFFFEEEE IIEEIIILLIIEMMEIIHHI FFFFEEEE| A more humane Mikado never | A |
| Did in Japan exist | B |
| To nobody second | C |
| I'm certainly reckoned | C |
| A true philanthropist | D |
| It is my very humane endeavour | A |
| To make to some extent | E |
| Each evil liver | A |
| A running river | A |
| Of harmless merriment | E |
| - | |
| My object all sublime | F |
| I shall achieve in time | F |
| To let the punishment fit the crime | F |
| The punishment fit the crime | F |
| And make each prisoner pent | E |
| Unwillingly represent | E |
| A source of innocent merriment | E |
| Of innocent merriment | E |
| - | |
| All prosy dull society sinners | G |
| Who chatter and bleat and bore | H |
| Are sent to hear sermons | I |
| From mystical Germans | I |
| Who preach from ten to four | H |
| The amateur tenor whose vocal villainies | I |
| All desire to shirk | J |
| Shall during off hours | I |
| Exhibit his powers | I |
| To Madame Tussaud's waxwork | J |
| The lady who dyes a chemical yellow | K |
| Or stains her grey hair puce | I |
| Or pinches her figger | H |
| Is blacked like a nigger | H |
| With permanent walnut juice | I |
| The idiot who in railway carriages | I |
| Scribbles on window panes | I |
| We only suffer | H |
| To ride on a buffer | H |
| In Parliamentary trains | I |
| - | |
| My object all sublime | F |
| I shall achieve in time | F |
| To let the punishment fit the crime | F |
| The punishment fit the crime | F |
| And make each prisoner pent | E |
| Unwillingly represent | E |
| A source of innocent merriment | E |
| Of innocent merriment | E |
| - | |
| The advertising quack who wearies | I |
| With tales of countless cures | I |
| His teeth I've enacted | E |
| Shall all be extracted | E |
| By terrified amateurs | I |
| The music hall singer attends a series | I |
| Of masses and fugues and ops | I |
| By Bach interwoven | L |
| With Spohr and Beethoven | L |
| At classical Monday Pops | I |
| The billiard sharp whom any one catches | I |
| His doom's extremely hard | E |
| He's made to dwell | M |
| In a dungeon cell | M |
| On a spot that's always barred | E |
| And there he plays extravagant matches | I |
| In fitless finger stalls | I |
| On a cloth untrue | H |
| With a twisted cue | H |
| And elliptical billiard balls | I |
| - | |
| My object all sublime | F |
| I shall achieve in time | F |
| To let the punishment fit the crime | F |
| The punishment fit the crime | F |
| And make each prisoner pent | E |
| Unwillingly represent | E |
| A source of innocent merriment | E |
| Of innocent merriment | E |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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