A Whipper-in Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACD EFFEGG HIIHJJ EKKEJJ LMMLNN| Dudley great placeman man of mark and note | A |
| Worthy of honor from a feeble pen | B |
| Blunted in service of all true good men | B |
| You serve the Lord in courses table d'hote | A |
| Au naturel as well as a la Nick | C |
| 'Eat and be thankful though it make you sick ' | D |
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| O truly pious caterer forbear | E |
| To push the Saviour and Him crucified | F |
| Brochette you'd call it into their inside | F |
| Who're all unused to such ambrosial fare | E |
| The stomach of the soul makes quick revulsion | G |
| Of aught that it has taken on compulsion | G |
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| I search the Scriptures but I do not find | H |
| That e'er the Spirit beats with angry wings | I |
| For entrance to the heart but sits and sings | I |
| To charm away the scruples of the mind | H |
| It says 'Receive me please I'll not compel' | J |
| Though if you don't you will go straight to Hell | J |
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| Well that's compulsion you will say 'T is true | E |
| We cower timidly beneath the rod | K |
| Lifted in menace by an angry God | K |
| But won't endure it from an ape like you | E |
| Detested simian with thumb prehensile | J |
| Switch me and I would brain you with my pencil | J |
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| Face you the Throne nor dare to turn your back | L |
| On its transplendency to flog some wight | M |
| Who gropes and stumbles in the infernal night | M |
| Your ugly shadow lays along his track | L |
| O Thou who from the Temple scourged the sin | N |
| Behold what rascals try to scourge it in | N |
Ambrose Bierce
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