Jane Eyre- Parody Poem

I found this on The Enthusiast’s Guide to Jane Eyre and laughed, so I thought I’d share.

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How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read in One Evening – Jane Eyre 
A collection of Literary Enscapulations by E.O. Parrott/ by Tim Hopkins, 1985 

Orphan Jane is both plain and unhappy 
Her guardian has favourites, is snappy; 
This pious old ghoul 
Sends her ward off to school, 
Hoping Lowood will make her less yappy. 

Thinly clothed, poorly fed, badly taught, 
Jane despairs as her plans come to naught, 
Til she’s offered a job 
With an upper-class yob 
Who is brooding, erotic and fraught. 

Jane leaves when the boss gets too randy 
(He’s still got a wife – ain’t that dandy?); 
Then fate plays a hand – 
Jane is left twenty grand 
Which for Jane (and the plot) is quite handy. 

Back at Thornfield the lad’s less erratic 
Since Bertha’s escape from the attic; 
Jane hears of the arson 
Then sends for the parson 
And Rochester’s blindly ecstatic.