A Political Apostate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Good friend it is with deep regret I noteA
The latest strangest turning of your coatA
Though any way you wear that mental cloutB
The seamy side seems always to be outB
Who could have thought that you would e'er sustainC
The Southern shotgun's arbitrary reignC
Your sturdy hand assisting to replaceD
The broken yoke on a delivered raceD
The ballot's purity no more your careE
With equal privilege to dark and fairE
To Yesterday a traitor to To dayF
You're constant but the better to betrayF
To morrow Your convictions all are naughtG
But the wild asses of the world of thoughtG
Which flying mindless o'er the barren plainC
Perceive at last they've nothing so to gainC
And turning penitent upon their trackH
Economize their strength by flying backH
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Ex champion of Freedom battle lungedI
No more red handed or at least red tonguedJ
Brandish the javelin which by others thrownK
Clove Sambo's heart to quiver in your ownK
Confess no more that when his blood was shedL
And you so sympathetically bledL
The bow that spanned the mutual cascadeM
Was but the promise of a roaring tradeM
In offices Your fingering now the triggerN
Shows that you knew your Negro was a niggerN
Ad hominem this argumentum runsO
Peace let us fire another kind of gunsO
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I grant you friend that it is very trueP
The Blacks are ignorant and sable tooP
What then One way of two a fool must voteA
And either way with gentlemen of noteA
Whose villain feuds the fact attest too wellQ
That pedagogues nor vice nor error quellQ
The fiercest controversies ever rageR
When Miltons and Salmasii engageR
No project wide attention ever drewP
But it disparted all the learned crewP
As through their group the cleaving line's prolongedS
With fiery combatants each field is throngedS
In battle royal they engage at onceT
For guidance of the hesitating dunceT
The Titans on the heights contend full soonU
On this side Webster and on that CalhounU
The monstrous conflagration of their fightV
Startling the day and splendoring the nightV
Both are unconquerable one is rightV
Will't keep the pigmy if we make him strongW
From siding with a giant in the wrongW
When Genius strikes for error who's afraidM
To arm poor Folly with a wooden bladeM
O Rabelais you knew it all your goodX
And honest judge by men misunderstoodX
Knew to be right there was but one deviceT
Less fallible than ignorance the diceT
The time must come Heaven expedite the dayF
When all mankind shall their decrees obeyF
And nations prosper in their peaceful swayF

Ambrose Bierce



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