A Poet's Father Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKAALLMMHHNNOO| Welcker I'm told can boast a father great | A |
| And honored in the service of the State | A |
| Public Instruction all his mind employs | B |
| He guides its methods and its wage enjoys | B |
| Prime Pedagogue imperious and grand | C |
| He waves his ferule o'er a studious land | C |
| Where humming youth intent upon the page | D |
| Thirsting for knowledge with a noble rage | D |
| Drink dry the whole Pierian spring and ask | E |
| To slake their fervor at his private flask | E |
| Arrested by the terror of his frown | F |
| The vaulting spit ball drops untimely down | F |
| The fly impaled on the tormenting pin | G |
| Stills in his awful glance its dizzy din | G |
| Beneath that stern regard the chewing gum | H |
| Which writhed and squeaked between the teeth is dumb | H |
| Obedient to his will the dunce cap flies | I |
| To perch upon the brows of the unwise | I |
| The supple switch forsakes the parent wood | J |
| To settle where 'twill do the greatest good | J |
| Puissant still as when of old it strove | K |
| With Solomon for spitting on the stove | K |
| Learned Professor variously great | A |
| Guide guardian instructor of the State | A |
| Quick to discern and zealous to correct | L |
| The faults which mar the public intellect | L |
| From where of Siskiyou the northern bound | M |
| Is frozen eternal to the sunless ground | M |
| To where in San Diego's torrid clime | H |
| The swarthy Greaser swelters in his grime | H |
| Beneath your stupid nose can you not see | N |
| The dunce whom once you dandled on your knee | N |
| O mighty master of a thousand schools | O |
| Stop teaching wisdom or stop breeding fools | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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