A Career In Letters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF GGHHIIJJ KKLLIIMMNNIIO OOOO| When Liberverm resigned the chair | A |
| Of This or That in college where | A |
| For two decades he'd gorged his brain | B |
| With more than it could well contain | B |
| In order to relieve the stress | C |
| He took to writing for the press | C |
| Then Pondronummus said 'I'll help | D |
| This mine of talent to devel'p ' | E |
| And straightway bought with coin and credit | F |
| The Thundergust for him to edit | F |
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| The great man seized the pen and ink | G |
| And wrote so hard he couldn't think | G |
| Ideas grew beneath his fist | H |
| And flew like falcons from his wrist | H |
| His pen shot sparks all kinds of ways | I |
| Till all the rivers were ablaze | I |
| And where the coruscations fell | J |
| Men uttered words I dare not spell | J |
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| Eftsoons with corrugated brow | K |
| Wet towels bound about his pow | K |
| Locked legs and failing appetite | L |
| He thought so hard he couldn't write | L |
| His soaring fancies chickenwise | I |
| Came home to roost and wouldn't rise | I |
| With dimmer light and milder heat | M |
| His goose quill staggered o'er the sheet | M |
| Then dragged then stopped the finish came | N |
| He couldn't even write his name | N |
| The Thundergust in three short weeks | I |
| Had risen roared and split its cheeks | I |
| Said Pondronummus 'How unjust | O |
| The storm I raised has laid my dust ' | - |
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| When Moneybagger you have aught | O |
| Invested in a vein of thought | O |
| Be sure you've purchased not instead | O |
| That salted claim a bookworm's head | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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