Bats In Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACC DEDFFDGG HIHIIHJJ| Well Mr Kemble you are called I think | A |
| A great divine and I'm a great profane | B |
| You as a Congregationalist blink | A |
| Some certain truths that I esteem a gain | B |
| And dropp them in the coffers of my brain | B |
| Pleased with the pretty music of their chink | A |
| Perhaps your spiritual wealth is such | C |
| A golden truth or two don't count for much | C |
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| You say that you've no patience with such stuff | D |
| As by Renan is writ and when you read | E |
| Why do you read have hardly strength enough | D |
| To hold your hand from flinging the vile screed | F |
| Into the fire That were a wasteful deed | F |
| Which you'd repent in sackcloth extra rough | D |
| For books cost money and I'm told you care | G |
| To lay up treasures Here as well as There | G |
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| I fear good pious soul that you mistake | H |
| Your thrift for toleration Never mind | I |
| Renan in any case would hardly break | H |
| His great strong charitable heart to find | I |
| The bats and owls of your myopic kind | I |
| Pained by the light that his ideas make | H |
| 'Tis Truth's best purpose to shine in at holes | J |
| Where cower the Kembles to confound their souls | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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