A Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF AAHIIJ KLEAAE MMNOON PPQRRQ| Says Anderson Theosophist | A |
| 'Among the many that exist | A |
| In modern halls | B |
| Some lived in ancient Egypt's clime | C |
| And in their childhood saw the prime | C |
| Of Karnak's walls ' | D |
| - | |
| Ah Anderson if that is true | E |
| 'T is my conviction sir that you | E |
| Are one of those | F |
| That once resided by the Nile | G |
| Peer to the sacred Crocodile | G |
| Heir to his woes | F |
| - | |
| My judgment is the holy Cat | A |
| Mews through your larynx and your hat | A |
| These many years | H |
| Through you the godlike Onion brings | I |
| Its melancholy sense of things | I |
| And moves to tears | J |
| - | |
| In you the Bull divine again | K |
| Bellows and paws the dusty plain | L |
| To nature true | E |
| I challenge not his ancient hate | A |
| But lowering my knurly pate | A |
| Lock horns with you | E |
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| And though Reincarnation prove | M |
| A creed too stubborn to remove | M |
| And all your school | N |
| Of Theosophs I cannot scare | O |
| All the more earnestly I swear | O |
| That you're a fool | N |
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| You'll say that this is mere abuse | P |
| Without in fraying you a use | P |
| That's plain to see | Q |
| With only half an eye Come now | R |
| Be fair be fair consider how | R |
| It eases me | Q |
Ambrose Bierce
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