Borrowed Brains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK| Writer folk across the bay | A |
| Take the pains to see and say | A |
| All their upward palms in air | B |
| 'Joaquin Miller's cut his hair ' | C |
| Hasten hasten writer folk | D |
| In the gutters rake and poke | D |
| If by God's exceeding grace | E |
| You may hit upon the place | E |
| Where the barber threw at length | F |
| Samson's literary strength | F |
| Find it find it if you can | G |
| Happy the successful man | G |
| He has but to put one strand | H |
| In his beaver's inner band | H |
| And his intellect will soar | I |
| As it never did before | I |
| While an inch of it remains | J |
| He will noted be for brains | J |
| And at last 'twill so befall | K |
| Fit to cease to write at all | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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