Expositor Veritatis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAC DEDEFF GHGH| I Slept and waking in the years to be | A |
| Heard voices and approaching whence they came | B |
| Listened indifferently where a key | A |
| Had lately been removed An ancient dame | B |
| Said to her daughter 'Go to yonder caddy | A |
| And get some emery to scour your daddy ' | C |
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| And then I knew some intuition said | D |
| That tombs were not and men had cleared their shelves | E |
| Of urns and the electro plated dead | D |
| Stood pedestaled as statues of themselves | E |
| With famous dead men all the public places | F |
| Were thronged and some in piles awaited bases | F |
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| One mighty structure's high facade alone | G |
| Contained a single monumental niche | H |
| Where central in that steep expanse of stone | G |
| Gleamed the familiar form of Thomas Fitch | H |
| A man cried 'Lo Truth's temple and its founder ' | - |
| Then gravely added 'I'm her chief expounder ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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