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 |
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| 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 |
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| '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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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