Bimetalism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EEEE BFB GHGH IBIB GBGB JKJK BGB LBLB| Ben Bulger was a silver man | A |
| Though not a mine had he | B |
| He thought it were a noble plan | A |
| To make the coinage free | B |
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| 'There hain't for years been sech a time ' | - |
| Said Ben to his bull pup | C |
| 'For biz the country's broke and I'm | D |
| The hardest kind of up | C |
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| 'The paper says that that's because | E |
| The silver coins is sea'ce | E |
| And that the chaps which makes the laws | E |
| Puts gold ones in their place | E |
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| 'They says them nations always be | B |
| Most prosperatin' where | F |
| The wolume of the currency | B |
| Ain't so disgustin' rare ' | - |
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| His dog which hadn't breakfasted | G |
| Dissented from his view | H |
| And wished that he could swell instead | G |
| The volume of cold stew | H |
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| 'Nobody'd put me up ' said Ben | I |
| 'With patriot galoots | B |
| Which benefits their feller men | I |
| By playin' warious roots | B |
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| 'But havin' all the tools about | G |
| I'm goin' to commence | B |
| A turnin' silver dollars out | G |
| Wuth eighty seven cents | B |
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| 'The feller takin' 'em can't whine | J |
| No more likewise can I | K |
| They're better than the genooine | J |
| Which mostly satisfy | K |
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| 'It's only makin' coinage free | B |
| And mebby might augment | G |
| The wolume of the currency | B |
| A noomerous per cent ' | - |
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| I don't quite see his error nor | L |
| Malevolence prepense | B |
| But fifteen years they gave him for | L |
| That technical offense | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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