A Rear Elevation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH| Once Moses in Scripture the story is told | A |
| Entreated the favor God's face to behold | A |
| Compassion divine the petition denied | B |
| Lest vision be blasted and body be fried | B |
| Yet this much the Record informs us took place | C |
| Jehovah concealing His terrible face | C |
| Protruded His rear from behind a great rock | D |
| And edification ensued without shock | D |
| So godlike Salvini lest worshipers die | E |
| Averting the blaze of his withering eye | E |
| Tempers his terrors and shows to the pack | F |
| Of feeble adorers the broad of his back | F |
| The fires of their altars which paled and declined | G |
| Before him burn all the more brightly behind | G |
| O happy adorers to care not at all | H |
| Where fawning may tickle or lip service fall | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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