California Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDDB EEFGGDDF HHIJJKKI LLMDDHHM NODDDPPD| Why should he not have been allowed | A |
| To thread with peaceful feet the crowd | A |
| Which filled that Christian street | B |
| The Decalogue he had observed | C |
| From Faith in Jesus had not swerved | C |
| And scorning pious platitudes | D |
| He saw in the Beatitudes | D |
| A lamp to guide his feet | B |
| - | |
| He knew that Jonah downed the whale | E |
| And made no bones of it The tale | E |
| That Ananias told | F |
| He swore was true He had no doubt | G |
| That Daniel laid the lions out | G |
| In short he had all holiness | D |
| All meekness and all lowliness | D |
| And was with saints enrolled | F |
| - | |
| 'Tis true some slight excess of zeal | H |
| Sincerely to promote the weal | H |
| Of this most Christian state | I |
| Had moved him rudely to divide | J |
| The queue that was a pagan's pride | J |
| And in addition certify | K |
| The Faith by making fur to fly | K |
| From pelt as well as pate | I |
| - | |
| But Heavenly Father thou dost know | L |
| That in this town these actions go | L |
| For nothing worth a name | M |
| Nay every editorial ass | D |
| To prove they never come to pass | D |
| Will damn his soul eternally | H |
| Although in his own journal he | H |
| May read the printed shame | M |
| - | |
| From bloody hands the reins of pow'r | N |
| Fall slack the high decisive hour | O |
| Strikes not for liars' ears | D |
| Remove O Father the disgrace | D |
| That stains our California's face | D |
| And consecrate to human good | P |
| The strength of her young womanhood | P |
| And all her golden years | D |
Ambrose Bierce
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About California
California is a poem by Ambrose Bierce. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about California poem by Ambrose Bierce
Best Poems of Ambrose Bierce