Convalescent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEDDFF GGHHIIGGGGJJKKGG FFGGLMNNGGGG| What 'Out of danger ' Can the slighted Dame | A |
| Or canting Pharisee no more defame | A |
| Will Treachery caress my hand no more | B |
| Nor Hatred lie alurk about my door | B |
| Ingratitude with benefits dismissed | C |
| Not understanding what 'tis all about | D |
| Will Envy henceforth not retaliate | E |
| For virtues it were vain to emulate | E |
| Will Ignorance my knowledge fail to scout | D |
| Not understanding what 'tis all about | D |
| Yet feeling in its light so mean and small | F |
| That all his little soul is turned to gall | F |
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| What 'Out of danger ' Jealousy disarmed | G |
| Greed from exaction magically charmed | G |
| Ambition stayed from trampling whom it meets | H |
| Like horses fugitive in crowded streets | H |
| The Bigot with his candle book and bell | I |
| Tongue tied unlunged and paralyzed as well | I |
| The Critic righteously to justice haled | G |
| His own ear to the post securely nailed | G |
| What most he dreads unable to inflict | G |
| And powerless to hawk the faults he's picked | G |
| The Liar choked upon his choicest lie | J |
| And impotent alike to vilify | J |
| Or flatter for the gold of thrifty men | K |
| Who hate his person but employ his pen | K |
| Who love and loathe respectively the dirt | G |
| Belonging to his character and shirt | G |
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| What 'Out of danger ' Nature's minions all | F |
| Like hounds returning to the huntsman's call | F |
| Obedient to the unwelcome note | G |
| That stays them from the quarry's bursting throat | G |
| Famine and Pestilence and Earthquake dire | L |
| Torrent and Tempest Lightning Frost and Fire | M |
| The soulless Tiger and the mindless Snake | N |
| The noxious Insect from the stagnant lake | N |
| These from their immemorial prey restrained | G |
| Their fury baffled and their power chained | G |
| I'm safe Is that what the physician said | G |
| What 'Out of danger ' Then by Heaven I'm dead | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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