Election Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBAAAAAACCAADDEE FFGGHIJJ KKLLAA DD| Despots effete upon tottering thrones | A |
| Unsteadily poised upon dead men's bones | A |
| Walk up walk up the circus is free | B |
| And this wonderful spectacle you shall see | B |
| Millions of voters who mostly are fools | A |
| Demagogues' dupes and candidates' tools | A |
| Armies of uniformed mountebanks | A |
| And braying disciples of brainless cranks | A |
| Many a week they've bellowed like beeves | A |
| Bitterly blackguarding lying like thieves | A |
| Libeling freely the quick and the dead | C |
| And painting the New Jerusalem red | C |
| Tyrants monarchical emperors kings | A |
| Princes and nobles and all such things | A |
| Noblemen gentlemen step this way | D |
| There's nothing the Devil excepted to pay | D |
| And the freaks and curios here to be seen | E |
| Are very uncommonly grand and serene | E |
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| No more with vivacity they debate | F |
| Nor cheerfully crack the illogical pate | F |
| No longer the dull understanding to aid | G |
| The stomach accepts the instructive blade | G |
| Nor the stubborn heart learns what is what | H |
| From a revelation of rabbit shot | I |
| And vilification's flames behold | J |
| Burn with a bickering faint and cold | J |
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| Magnificent spectacle every tongue | K |
| Suddenly civil that yesterday rung | K |
| Like a clapper beating a brazen bell | L |
| Each fair reputation's eternal knell | L |
| Hands no longer delivering blows | A |
| And noses for counting arrayed in rows | A |
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| Walk up gentlemen nothing to pay | D |
| The Devil goes back to Hell to day | D |
Ambrose Bierce
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