A Question Of Eligibility Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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It was a bruised and battered chapA
The victim of some dire mishapA
Who sat upon a rock and spentB
His breath in this ungay lamentB
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'Some wars I've frequent heard of suchC
Has beat the everlastin' DutchC
But never fight was fit by manD
To equal this which has beganD
In our I'm in it if you pleaseE
Academy of SciencesF
For there is various gents belongG
To it which go persistent wrongG
And loving the debates' delightH
Calls one another names at sightH
Their disposition too accordsI
With fighting like they all was lordsI
Sech impulses should be withstoodJ
'Tis scientific to be goodJ
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''Twas one of them one night last weekK
Rose up his figure for to speakK
'Please Mr Chair I'm holding hereL
A resolution which I fearM
Some ancient fossils that has bustN
Their cases and shook off their dustN
To sit as Members here will findO
Unpleasant not to say unkind '-
And then he read it every wordP
And silence fell on all which heardP
That resolution wild and strangeQ
Proposed a fundamental changeQ
Which was that idiots no moreR
Could join us as they had beforeR
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'No sooner was he seated thanD
The members rose up to a manD
Each chap was primed with a replyS
And tried to snatch the Chairman's eyeS
They stomped and shook their fists in airT
And O what words was uttered thereT
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'The Chair was silent but at lastU
He hove up his proportions vastU
And stilled them tumults with a lookV
By which the undauntedest was shookV
He smiled sarcastical and saidW
'If Argus was the Chair insteadW
Of me he'd lack enough of eyesX
Each orator to recognizeX
And since denied a hearing youY
Might maybe undertake to doY
Each other harm before you ceaseZ
I've took some steps to keep the peaceZ
I've ordered out alas alasA2
That Science e'er to such a passA2
Should come I've ordered out the gas '-
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'O if a tongue or pen of fireB2
Was mine I could not tell entireB2
What the ensuin' actions wasC2
When swollered up in darkness' jawsD2
We fit and fit and fit and fitE2
And everything we felt we hitE2
We gouged we scratched and we pulled hairT
And O what words was uttered thereT
And when at last the day dawn cameF2
Three hundred Scientists was lameF2
Two hundred others couldn't standG2
They'd been so careless handled andH2
One thousand at the very leastI2
Was spread upon the floor deceasedI2
'Twere easy to exaggerateJ2
But lies is things I mortal hateJ2
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'Such friends is the disaster sadK2
Which has befel the Cal AcadK2
And now the question is of moreR
Importance than it was beforeR
Shall vacancies among us beL2
To idiots threw open free '-

Ambrose Bierce



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