A Jack-at-all-views Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBADD ECECCEFG HIHIIHJJ KLKLLK M| So Estee you are still alive I thought | A |
| That you had died and were a blessed ghost | B |
| I know at least your coffin once was bought | C |
| With Railroad money and 'twas said by most | B |
| Historians that Stanford made a boast | B |
| The seller 'threw you in ' That goes for naught | A |
| Man takes delight in fancy's fine inventions | D |
| And woman too 'tis said if they are French ones | D |
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| Do you remember Estee ah 'twas long | E |
| And long ago how fierce you grew and hot | C |
| When anything impeded the straight strong | E |
| Wild sweep of the great billow you had got | C |
| Atop of like a swimmer bold Great Scott | C |
| How fine your wavemanship How loud your song | E |
| Of 'Down with railroads ' When the wave subsided | F |
| And left you stranded you were much divided | G |
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| Then for a time you were content to wade | H |
| The waters of the 'robber barons'' moat | I |
| To fetch and carry was your humble trade | H |
| And ferry Stanford over in a boat | I |
| Well paid if he bestowed the kindly groat | I |
| And spoke you fair and called you pretty maid | H |
| And when his stomach seemed a bit unsteady | J |
| You got your serviceable basin ready | J |
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| Strange man how odd to see you smug and spruce | K |
| There at Chicago burrowed in a Chair | L |
| Not made to measure and a deal too loose | K |
| And see you lift your little arm and swear | L |
| Democracy shall be no more If it's a fair | L |
| And civil question and not too abstruse | K |
| Were you elected as a 'robber baron ' | - |
| Or as a Communist whose teeth had hair on | M |
Ambrose Bierce
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