A Political Violet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED F FG HIHI JKJK LML DNDN OPOP QRQR SOSO DTDU| Come Stanford let us sit at ease | A |
| And talk as old friends do | B |
| You talk of anything you please | A |
| And I will talk of you | B |
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| You recently have said I hear | C |
| That you would like to go | D |
| To serve as Senator That's queer | E |
| Have you told William Stow | D |
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| Once when the Legislature said | F |
| 'Go Stanford and be great ' | - |
| You lifted up your Jovian head | F |
| And everlooked the State | G |
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| As one made leisurely awake | H |
| You lightly rubbed your eyes | I |
| And answered 'Thank you please to make | H |
| A note of my surprise | I |
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| 'But who are they who skulk aside | J |
| As to get out of reach | K |
| And in their clothing strive to hide | J |
| Three thousand dollars each | K |
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| 'Not members of your body sure | L |
| No that can hardly be | M |
| All statesmen I suppose are pure | L |
| What there are rogues Dear me ' | - |
| - | |
| You added you'll recall that though | D |
| You were surprised and pained | N |
| You thought upon the whole you'd go | D |
| And in that mind remained | N |
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| Now what so great a change has wrought | O |
| That you so frankly speak | P |
| Of 'seeking' honors once unsought | O |
| Because you 'scorned to seek' | P |
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| Do you not fear the grave reproof | Q |
| In good Creed Haymond's eye | R |
| Will Stephen Gage not stand aloof | Q |
| And pass you coldly by | R |
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| O fear you not that Vrooman's lich | S |
| Will rise from earth and point | O |
| At you a scornful finger which | S |
| May lack perchance a joint | O |
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| Go Stanford where the violets grow | D |
| And join their modest train | T |
| Await the work of William Stow | D |
| And be surprised again | U |
Ambrose Bierce
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