An ignis fatuus that bewitches,
And leads men into pools and ditches.
He was, in logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skilled in analytic.
Besides, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read every text and gloss over.
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
Another form of comic verse is where the rhyme is made by dividing the word, being formed by a similar sound in the middle syllables; as for example:—
Thou wast the daughter of my Tu-