A Demand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEECB FBGFGHHGB HBDHDIIDB JBKJKJJKK AKCACLLCK LKALAMMAK| You promised to paint me a picture | A |
| Dear Mat | B |
| And I was to pay you in rhyme | C |
| Although I am loth to inflict your | D |
| Most easy of consciences I'm | C |
| Of opinion that fibbing is awful | E |
| And breaking a contract unlawful | E |
| Indictable too as a crime | C |
| A slight and all that | B |
| - | |
| If Lady Unbountiful any | F |
| Of that | B |
| By mortals called pity has part | G |
| In your obdurate soul if a penny | F |
| You care for the health of my heart | G |
| By performing your undertaking | H |
| You'll succor that organ from breaking | H |
| And spare it for some new smart | G |
| As puss does a rat | B |
| - | |
| Do you think it is very becoming | H |
| Dear Mat | B |
| To deny me my rights evermore | D |
| And bless you if I begin summing | H |
| Your sins they will make a long score | D |
| You never were generous madam | I |
| If you had been Eve and I Adam | I |
| You'd have given me naught but the core | D |
| And little of that | B |
| - | |
| Had I been content with a Titian | J |
| A cat | B |
| By Landseer a meadow by Claude | K |
| No doubt I'd have had your permission | J |
| To take it by purchase abroad | K |
| But why should I sail o'er the ocean | J |
| For Landseers and Claudes I've a notion | J |
| All's bad that the critics belaud | K |
| I wanted a Mat | K |
| - | |
| Presumption's a sin and I suffer | A |
| For that | K |
| But still you did say that sometime | C |
| If I'd pay you enough here's enougher | A |
| That's more than enough of rhym | C |
| You'd paint me a picture I pay you | L |
| Hereby in advance and I pray you | L |
| Condone while you can your crime | C |
| And send me a Mat | K |
| - | |
| But if you don't do it I warn you | L |
| Dear Mat | K |
| I'll raise such a clamor and cry | A |
| On Parnassus the Muses will scorn you | L |
| As mocker of poets and fly | A |
| With bitter complaints to Apollo | M |
| 'Her spirit is proud her heart hollow | M |
| Her beauty' they'll hardly deny | A |
| On second thought that | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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