A Vision Of Climate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCDEF GHGIHJKJKL MNMNNOPO Q RSTSUMVMVE WXWX YZY A2A2| I dreamed that I was poor and sick and sad | A |
| Broken in hope and weary of my life | B |
| My ventures all miscarrying naught had | A |
| For all my labor in the heat and strife | B |
| And in my heart some certain thoughts were rife | B |
| Of an unsummoned exit As I lay | C |
| Considering my bitter state I cried | D |
| 'Alas that hither I did ever stray | C |
| Better in some fair country to have died | D |
| Than live in such a land where Fortune never | E |
| Unless he be successful crowns Endeavor ' | F |
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| Then even as I lamented lo there came | G |
| A troop of Presences I knew not whence | H |
| Nor what they were thought cannot rightly name | G |
| What's known through spiritual evidence | I |
| Reported not by gross material sense | H |
| 'Why come ye here ' I seemed to cry though naught | J |
| My sleeping tongue did utter to the first | K |
| 'What are ye with what woful message fraught | J |
| Ye have a ghastly look as ye had burst | K |
| Some sepulcher in memory Weird creatures | L |
| I'm sure I'd know you if ye had but features ' | - |
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| Some subtle organ noted the reply | M |
| Inaudible to ear of flesh the tone | N |
| 'The Finest Climate in the World am I | M |
| From Siskiyou to San Diego known | N |
| From the Sierra to the sea The zone | N |
| Called semi tropical I've pulled about | O |
| And placed it where it does most good I trust | P |
| I shake my never failing bounty out | O |
| Alike upon the just and the unjust ' | - |
| 'That's very true ' said I 'but when 'tis shaken | Q |
| My share by the unjust is ever taken ' | - |
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| 'Permit me ' it resumed 'now to present | R |
| My eldest son the Champagne Atmosphere | S |
| And others to rebuke your discontent | T |
| The Mammoth Squash Strawberry All the Year | S |
| The fair No Lightning flashing only here | U |
| The Wholesome Earthquake and Italian Sky | M |
| With its Unstriking Sun and last not least | V |
| The Compos Mentis Dog Now ingrate try | M |
| To bring a better stomach to the feast | V |
| When Nature makes a dance and pays the piper | E |
| To be unhappy is to be a viper ' | - |
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| 'Why yet ' said I 'with all your blessings fine | W |
| And Heaven forbid that I should speak them ill | X |
| I yet am poor and sick and sad Ye shine | W |
| With more of splendor than of heat for still | X |
| Although my will is warm my bones are chill ' | - |
| 'Then warm you with enthusiasm's blaze | Y |
| Fortune waits not on toil ' they cried 'O then | Z |
| Join the wild chorus clamoring our praise | Y |
| Throw up your beaver and throw down you pen ' | - |
| 'Begone ' I shouted They bewent a smirking | A2 |
| And I awakening fell straight a working | A2 |
Ambrose Bierce
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