By False Pretenses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHCCIIJJ FFFF| John S Hittell whose sovereign genius wields | A |
| The quill his tributary body yields | A |
| The author of an opera that is | B |
| All but the music and libretto's his | B |
| A work renowned whose formidable name | C |
| Linked with his own repels the assault of fame | C |
| From the high vantage of a dusty shelf | D |
| Secure from all the world except himself | D |
| Who told the tale of 'Culture' in a screed | E |
| That all might understand if some would read | F |
| Master of poesy and lord of prose | G |
| Dowered like a setter with a double nose | G |
| That one for Erato for Clio this | H |
| He flushes both not his fault if we miss | H |
| Judge of the painter's art who'll straight proclaim | C |
| The hue of any color you can name | C |
| And knows a painting with a canvas back | I |
| Distinguished from a duck by the duck's quack | I |
| This thinker and philosopher whose work | J |
| Is famous from Commercial street to Turk | J |
| Has got a fortune now his talent's meed | F |
| A woman left it him who could not read | F |
| And so went down to death's eternal night | F |
| Sweetly unconscious that the wretch could write | F |
Ambrose Bierce
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