A Welcome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDED FFGF HHIH JJKJ| Because you call yourself Knights Templar and | A |
| There's neither Knight nor Temple in the land | B |
| Because you thus by vain pretense degrade | C |
| To paltry purposes traditions grand | B |
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| Because to cheat the ignorant you say | D |
| The thing that's not elated still to sway | D |
| The crass credulity of gaping fools | E |
| And women by fantastical display | D |
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| Because no sacred fires did ever warm | F |
| Your hearts high knightly service to perform | F |
| A woman's breast or coffer of a man | G |
| The only citadel you dare to storm | F |
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| Because while railing still at lord and peer | H |
| At pomp and fuss and feathers while you jeer | H |
| Each member of your order tries to graft | I |
| A peacock's tail upon his barren rear | H |
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| Because that all these things are thus and so | J |
| I bid you welcome to our city Lo | J |
| You're free to come and free to stay and free | K |
| As soon as it shall please you sirs to go | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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