A Question Of Eligibility Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEFGGHHIIJJ KKLMNNO PPQQRR DDSSTT UUVVWWXXYYZZA2A2 B2B2C2D2E2E2TTF2F2G2 H2I2I2J2J2 K2K2RRL2It was a bruised and battered chap | A |
The victim of some dire mishap | A |
Who sat upon a rock and spent | B |
His breath in this ungay lament | B |
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'Some wars I've frequent heard of such | C |
Has beat the everlastin' Dutch | C |
But never fight was fit by man | D |
To equal this which has began | D |
In our I'm in it if you please | E |
Academy of Sciences | F |
For there is various gents belong | G |
To it which go persistent wrong | G |
And loving the debates' delight | H |
Calls one another names at sight | H |
Their disposition too accords | I |
With fighting like they all was lords | I |
Sech impulses should be withstood | J |
'Tis scientific to be good | J |
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''Twas one of them one night last week | K |
Rose up his figure for to speak | K |
'Please Mr Chair I'm holding here | L |
A resolution which I fear | M |
Some ancient fossils that has bust | N |
Their cases and shook off their dust | N |
To sit as Members here will find | O |
Unpleasant not to say unkind ' | - |
And then he read it every word | P |
And silence fell on all which heard | P |
That resolution wild and strange | Q |
Proposed a fundamental change | Q |
Which was that idiots no more | R |
Could join us as they had before | R |
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'No sooner was he seated than | D |
The members rose up to a man | D |
Each chap was primed with a reply | S |
And tried to snatch the Chairman's eye | S |
They stomped and shook their fists in air | T |
And O what words was uttered there | T |
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'The Chair was silent but at last | U |
He hove up his proportions vast | U |
And stilled them tumults with a look | V |
By which the undauntedest was shook | V |
He smiled sarcastical and said | W |
'If Argus was the Chair instead | W |
Of me he'd lack enough of eyes | X |
Each orator to recognize | X |
And since denied a hearing you | Y |
Might maybe undertake to do | Y |
Each other harm before you cease | Z |
I've took some steps to keep the peace | Z |
I've ordered out alas alas | A2 |
That Science e'er to such a pass | A2 |
Should come I've ordered out the gas ' | - |
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'O if a tongue or pen of fire | B2 |
Was mine I could not tell entire | B2 |
What the ensuin' actions was | C2 |
When swollered up in darkness' jaws | D2 |
We fit and fit and fit and fit | E2 |
And everything we felt we hit | E2 |
We gouged we scratched and we pulled hair | T |
And O what words was uttered there | T |
And when at last the day dawn came | F2 |
Three hundred Scientists was lame | F2 |
Two hundred others couldn't stand | G2 |
They'd been so careless handled and | H2 |
One thousand at the very least | I2 |
Was spread upon the floor deceased | I2 |
'Twere easy to exaggerate | J2 |
But lies is things I mortal hate | J2 |
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'Such friends is the disaster sad | K2 |
Which has befel the Cal Acad | K2 |
And now the question is of more | R |
Importance than it was before | R |
Shall vacancies among us be | L2 |
To idiots threw open free ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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