A Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGCCHGIJKCCLMN OPKQCRSG ATOCOCO UVAWXO AYZ A2B2CICAC B2 C2CCD2CAPennoyer 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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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 ' | - |
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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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