A Soaring Toad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCDD EFEFFEGG HAHAAHII JKJKKJII LMLMNLOO| So Governor you would not serve again | A |
| Although we'd all agree to pay you double | B |
| You find it all is vanity and pain | C |
| One clump of clover in a field of stubble | B |
| One grain of pleasure in a peck of trouble | B |
| 'Tis sad at your age having to complain | C |
| Of disillusion but the fault is whose | D |
| When pigmies stumble wearing giants' shoes | D |
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| I humbly told you many moons ago | E |
| For high preferment you were all unfit | F |
| A clumsy bear makes but a sorry show | E |
| Climbing a pole Let him judicious sit | F |
| With dignity at bottom of his pit | F |
| And none his awkwardness will ever know | E |
| Some beasts look better and feel better too | G |
| Seen from above and so I think would you | G |
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| Why you were mad Did you suppose because | H |
| Our foolish system suffers foolish men | A |
| To climb to power make enforce the laws | H |
| And it is whispered break them now and then | A |
| We love the fellows and respect them when | A |
| We've stilled the volume of our loud hurrahs | H |
| When folly blooms we trample it the more | I |
| For having fertilized it heretofore | I |
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| Behold yon laborer His garb is mean | J |
| His face is grimy but who thinks to ask | K |
| The measure of his brains 'Tis only seen | J |
| He's fitted for his honorable task | K |
| And so delights the mind But let him bask | K |
| In droll prosperity absurdly clean | J |
| Is that the man whom we admired before | I |
| Good Lord how ignorant and what a bore | I |
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| Better for you that thoughtless men had said | L |
| Noting your fitness in the humbler sphere | M |
| 'Why don't they make him Governor ' instead | L |
| Of 'Why the devil did they ' But I fear | M |
| My words on your inhospitable ear | N |
| Are wasted like a sermon to the dead | L |
| Still they may profit you if studied well | O |
| You can't be taught to think but may to spell | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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