A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGCCHGIJKCCLMN OPKQCRSG ATOCOCO UVAWXO AYZ A2B2CICAC B2 C2CCD2CA| Pennoyer Governor of Oregon | A |
| Casting to South his eye across the bourne | B |
| Of his dominion where the Palmiped | C |
| With leathers 'twixt his toes paddles his marsh | D |
| Amphibious saw a rising cloud of hats | E |
| And heard a faint far sound of distant cheers | F |
| Below the swell of the horizon 'Lo ' | G |
| Cried one 'the President the President ' | G |
| All footed webwise then took up the word | C |
| The hill tribes and the tribes lacustrine and | C |
| The folk riparian and littoral | H |
| Cried with one voice 'The President He comes ' | G |
| And some there were who flung their headgear up | I |
| In emulation of the Southern mob | J |
| While some more soberly disposed stood still | K |
| And silently had fits and others made | C |
| Such reverent genuflexions as they could | C |
| Having that climate in their bones Then spake | L |
| The Court Dunce humbly as became him 'Sire | M |
| If thou as heretofore thou hast wilt deign | N |
| To reap advantage of a fool's advice | O |
| By action ordered after nature's way | P |
| As in thy people manifest for still | K |
| Stupidity's the only wisdom thou | Q |
| Wilt get thee straight unto to the border land | C |
| To mark the President's approach with such | R |
| Due decent courtesy as it shall seem | S |
| We have in custom the best warrant for ' | G |
| - | |
| Pennoyer Governor of Oregon | A |
| Eyeing the storm of hats which darkened all | T |
| The Southern sky and hearing far hurrahs | O |
| Of an exulting people answered not | C |
| Then some there were who fell upon their knees | O |
| And some upon their Governor and sought | C |
| Each in his way by blandishment or force | O |
| To gain his action to their end 'Behold ' | - |
| They said 'thy brother Governor to South | U |
| Met him even at the gateway of his realm | V |
| Crook kneed magnetic handed and agrin | A |
| Backed like a rainbow all things done in form | W |
| Of due observance and respect Shall we | X |
| Alone of all his servitors refuse | O |
| Swift welcome to our master and our lord ' | - |
| - | |
| Pennoyer Governor of Oregon | A |
| Answered them not but turned his back to them | Y |
| And as if speaking to himself the while | Z |
| He started to retire said 'He be damned ' | - |
| - | |
| To that High Place o'er Portland's central block | A2 |
| Where the Recording Angel stands to view | B2 |
| The sinning world nor thinks to move his feet | C |
| Aside and look below came flocking up | I |
| Inferior angels all aghast and cried | C |
| 'Pennoyer Governor of Oregon | A |
| Has said O what an awful word too bad | C |
| To be by us repeated ' 'Yes I know ' | - |
| Said the superior bird 'I heard it too | B2 |
| And have already booked it Pray observe ' | - |
| Splitting the giant tome whose covers fell | C2 |
| Apart o'ershadowing to right and left | C |
| The Eastern and the Western world he showed | C |
| The newly written entry black and big | D2 |
| Upon the credit side of thine account | C |
| Pennoyer Governor of Oregon | A |
Ambrose Bierce
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