Couplets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFHHIJ KKLLMMAANN| I 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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