Couplets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFHHIJ KKLLMMAANNI am for Cutting I'm a blade | A |
Designed for use at dress parade | A |
My gleaming length when I display | B |
Peace rules the land with gentle sway | B |
But when the war dogs bare their teeth | C |
Go seek me in the modest sheath | C |
I am for Cutting Not for me | D |
The task of setting nations free | D |
Let soulless blades take human life | E |
My softer metal shuns the strife | E |
The annual review is mine | F |
When gorgeous shopmen sweat and shine | F |
And Biddy tip toe on the pave | G |
Adores the cobble trotting brave | G |
I am for Cutting 'Tis not mine | F |
To hew amain the hostile line | F |
Not mine all pitiless to spread | H |
The plain with tumuli of dead | H |
My grander duty lies afar | I |
From haunts of the insane hussar | J |
Where charging horse and struggling foot | K |
Are grimed alike with cannon soot | K |
When Loveliness and Valor meet | L |
Beneath the trees to dance and eat | L |
And sing and much beside behold | M |
My golden glories all unfold | M |
There formidably are displayed | A |
The useful horrors of my blade | A |
In time of feast and dance and ballad | N |
I am for cutting chicken salad | N |
Ambrose Bierce
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