A Political Apostate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGCCHH IJKKLLMMNNOO PPAAQQRRPPSSTTUUVVVW WMMXXTTFFFGood friend it is with deep regret I note | A |
The latest strangest turning of your coat | A |
Though any way you wear that mental clout | B |
The seamy side seems always to be out | B |
Who could have thought that you would e'er sustain | C |
The Southern shotgun's arbitrary reign | C |
Your sturdy hand assisting to replace | D |
The broken yoke on a delivered race | D |
The ballot's purity no more your care | E |
With equal privilege to dark and fair | E |
To Yesterday a traitor to To day | F |
You're constant but the better to betray | F |
To morrow Your convictions all are naught | G |
But the wild asses of the world of thought | G |
Which flying mindless o'er the barren plain | C |
Perceive at last they've nothing so to gain | C |
And turning penitent upon their track | H |
Economize their strength by flying back | H |
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Ex champion of Freedom battle lunged | I |
No more red handed or at least red tongued | J |
Brandish the javelin which by others thrown | K |
Clove Sambo's heart to quiver in your own | K |
Confess no more that when his blood was shed | L |
And you so sympathetically bled | L |
The bow that spanned the mutual cascade | M |
Was but the promise of a roaring trade | M |
In offices Your fingering now the trigger | N |
Shows that you knew your Negro was a nigger | N |
Ad hominem this argumentum runs | O |
Peace let us fire another kind of guns | O |
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I grant you friend that it is very true | P |
The Blacks are ignorant and sable too | P |
What then One way of two a fool must vote | A |
And either way with gentlemen of note | A |
Whose villain feuds the fact attest too well | Q |
That pedagogues nor vice nor error quell | Q |
The fiercest controversies ever rage | R |
When Miltons and Salmasii engage | R |
No project wide attention ever drew | P |
But it disparted all the learned crew | P |
As through their group the cleaving line's prolonged | S |
With fiery combatants each field is thronged | S |
In battle royal they engage at once | T |
For guidance of the hesitating dunce | T |
The Titans on the heights contend full soon | U |
On this side Webster and on that Calhoun | U |
The monstrous conflagration of their fight | V |
Startling the day and splendoring the night | V |
Both are unconquerable one is right | V |
Will't keep the pigmy if we make him strong | W |
From siding with a giant in the wrong | W |
When Genius strikes for error who's afraid | M |
To arm poor Folly with a wooden blade | M |
O Rabelais you knew it all your good | X |
And honest judge by men misunderstood | X |
Knew to be right there was but one device | T |
Less fallible than ignorance the dice | T |
The time must come Heaven expedite the day | F |
When all mankind shall their decrees obey | F |
And nations prosper in their peaceful sway | F |
Ambrose Bierce
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