Ad Cattonum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGHIIEE JJKKLLCCMMNNOOPP QQRRSSS| I know not Mr Catton who you are | A |
| Nor very clearly why but you go far | A |
| To show that you are many things beside | B |
| A Chilean Consul with a tempting hide | B |
| But what they are I hardly could explain | C |
| Without afflicting you with mental pain | C |
| Your name gods what a name the muse to woo | D |
| Suggesting cats and hinting kittens too | D |
| Points to an origin perhaps Maltese | E |
| Perhaps Angoran where the wicked cease | F |
| From fiddling and the animals that grow | G |
| The strings that groan to the tormenting bow | H |
| Live undespoiled of their insides resigned | I |
| To give their name and nature to mankind | I |
| With Chilean birth your name but poorly tallies | E |
| The test is Did you ever sell tamales | E |
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| It matters very little though my boy | J |
| If you're from Chile or from Illinois | J |
| You can't because you serve a foreign land | K |
| Spit with impunity on ours expand | K |
| Cock turkeywise and strut with blind conceit | L |
| All heedless of the hearts beneath your feet | L |
| Fling falsehoods as a sower scatters grain | C |
| And for security invoke disdain | C |
| Sir there are laws that men of sense observe | M |
| No matter whence they come nor whom they serve | M |
| The laws of courtesy and these forbid | N |
| You to malign as recently you did | N |
| As servant of another State a State | O |
| Wherein your duties all are concentrate | O |
| Branding its Ministers as rogues in short | P |
| Inviting cuffs as suitable retort | P |
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| Chileno or American 'tis one | Q |
| Of any land a citizen or none | Q |
| If like a new Thersites here you rail | R |
| Loading with libels every western gale | R |
| You'll feel the cudgel on your scurvy hump | S |
| Impinging with a salutary thump | S |
| 'Twill make you civil or 'twill make you jump | S |
Ambrose Bierce
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