Old Fashioned Fun



When that old joke was new,
It was not hard to joke,
And puns we now pooh-pooh,
Great laughter would provoke.
  
True wit was seldom heard,
And humor shown by few,
When reign'd King George the Third,
And that old joke was new.
  
It passed indeed for wit,
Did this achievement rare,
When down your friend would sit,
To steal away his chair.
  
You brought him to the floor,
You bruised him black and blue,
And this would cause a roar,
When your old joke was new.
  
W. M. Thackeray.
  
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABAB CACA DEDE FAFA X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 468
Words 94
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. more…

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