An Actor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBBHHII JJ| Some one 'tis hardly new has oddly said | A |
| The color of a trumpet's blare is red | A |
| And Joseph Emmett thinks the crimson shame | B |
| On woman's cheek a trumpet note of fame | B |
| The more the red storm rises round her nose | C |
| The more her eyes averted seek her toes | C |
| He fancies all the louder he can hear | D |
| The tube resounding in his spacious ear | D |
| And all his varied talents to exert | E |
| Darkens his dullness to display his dirt | E |
| And when the gallery's indecent crowd | F |
| And gentlemen below with hisses loud | F |
| In hot contention these his art to crown | G |
| And those his naked nastiness to drown | G |
| Make such a din that cheeks erewhile aflame | B |
| Grow white and in their fear forget their shame | B |
| With impudence imperial sublime | H |
| Unmoved the patient actor bides his time | H |
| Till storm and counter storm are both allayed | I |
| Like donkeys each by t'other one outbrayed | I |
| When all the place is silent as a mouse | J |
| One slow suggestive gesture clears the house | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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