Famine's Realm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQBRS TUVWDXYZOA2LB2C2C2B2 B2B2KD2B2E2B2F2G2H2L ECEI2To him in whom the love of Nature has | A |
Imperfectly supplanted the desire | B |
And dread necessity of food your shore | C |
Fair Oakland is a terror Over all | D |
Your sunny level from Tamaletown | E |
To where the Pestuary's fragrant slime | F |
With dead dogs studded bears its ailing fleet | G |
Broods the still menace of starvation Bones | H |
Of men and women bleach along the ways | I |
And pampered vultures sleep upon the trees | J |
It is a land of death and Famine there | K |
Holds sovereignty though some there be her sway | L |
Who challenge and intrenched in larders live | M |
Drawing their sustentation from abroad | N |
But woe to him the stranger He shall die | O |
As die the early righteous in the bud | P |
And promise of their prime He venturesome | Q |
To penetrate the wilds rectangular | B |
Of grass grown ways luxuriant of blooms | R |
Frequented of the bee and of the blithe | S |
Bold squirrel strays with heedless feet afar | T |
From human habitation and is lost | U |
In mid Broadway There hunger seizes him | V |
And careless man deeming God's providence | W |
Extends so far he has not wherewithal | D |
To bate its urgency Then lo appears | X |
A mealery a restaurant a place | Y |
Where poison battles famine and the two | Z |
Like fish hawks warring in the upper sky | O |
For that which one has taken from the deep | A2 |
Manage between them to dispatch the prey | L |
He enters and leaves hope behind There ends | B2 |
His history Anon his bones clean picked | C2 |
By buzzards with the bones himself had picked | C2 |
Incautious line the highway O my friends | B2 |
Of all felonious and deadlywise | B2 |
Devices of the Enemy of Souls | B2 |
Planted along the ways of life to snare | K |
Man's mortal and immortal part alike | D2 |
The Oakland restaurant is chief It lives | B2 |
That man may die It flourishes that life | E2 |
May wither Its foundation stones repose | B2 |
On human hearts and hopes I've seen in it | F2 |
Crabs stewed in milk and salad offered up | G2 |
With dressing so unholily compound | H2 |
That it included flour and sugar Yea | L |
I've eaten dog there dog as I'm a man | E |
Dog seethed in sewage of the town No more | C |
Thy hand Dyspepsia assumes the pen | E |
And scrawls a tortured 'Finis' on the page | I2 |
Ambrose Bierce
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