An Offer Of Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGGGHHGGII JJKLMMNNIIOA PPQQGGRRSSTTU II| Once I 'dipt into the future far as human eye could see ' | A |
| And saw it was not Sandow nor John Sullivan but she | B |
| The Emancipated Woman who was weeping as she ran | C |
| Here and there for the discovery of Expurgated Man | C |
| But the sun of Evolution ever rose and ever set | D |
| And that tardiest of mortals hadn't evoluted yet | D |
| Hence the tears that she cascaded hence the sighs that tore apart | E |
| All the tendinous connections of her indurated heart | E |
| Cried Emancipated Woman as she wearied of the search | F |
| 'In Advancing I have left myself distinctly in the lurch | F |
| Seeking still a worthy partner from the land of brutes and dudes | G |
| I have penetrated rashly into manless solitudes | G |
| Now without a mate of any kind where am I that's to say | G |
| Where shall I be to morrow where exert my rightful sway | G |
| And the purifying strength of my emancipated mind | H |
| Can solitude be lifted up vacuity refined | H |
| Calling calling from the shadows in the rear of my Advance | G |
| From the Region of Unprogress in the Dark Domain of Chance | G |
| Long I heard the Unevolvable beseeching my return | I |
| To share the degradation he's reluctant to unlearn | I |
| But I fancy I detected though I pray it wasn't that | J |
| A low reverberation like an echo in a hat | J |
| So I've held my way regardless evoluting year by year | K |
| Till I'm what you now behold me or would if you were here | L |
| A condensed Emancipation and a Purifier proud | M |
| An Independent Entity appropriately loud | M |
| Independent Yes in spirit but O woful woful state | N |
| Doomed to premature extinction by privation of a mate | N |
| To extinction or reversion for Unexpurgated Man | I |
| Still awaits me in the backward if I sicken of the van | I |
| O the horrible dilemma to be odiously linked | O |
| With an Undeveloped Species or become a Type Extinct ' | A |
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| As Emancipated Woman wailed her sorrow to the air | P |
| Stalking out of desolation came a being strange and rare | P |
| Plato's Man bipedal featherless from mandible to rump | Q |
| Its wings two quilless flippers and its tail a plumeless stump | Q |
| First it scratched and then it clucked as if in hospitable terms | G |
| It invited her to banquet on imaginary worms | G |
| Then it strutted up before her with a lifting of the head | R |
| And in accents of affection and of sympathy it said | R |
| 'My estate is some 'at 'umble but I'm qualified to draw | S |
| Near the hymeneal altar and whack up my heart and claw | S |
| To Emancipated Anything as walks upon the earth | T |
| And them things is at your service for whatever they are worth | T |
| I'm sure to be congenial marm nor e'er deserve a scowl | U |
| I'm Emancipated Rooster I am Expurgated Fowl ' | - |
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| From the future and its wonders I withdrew my gaze and then | I |
| Wrote this wild unfestive prophecy about the Coming Hen | I |
Ambrose Bierce
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