Foundations Of The State Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHIJJJJKK LLMMNNOOFF PPJJQQRRS| Observe dear Lord what lively pranks | A |
| Are played by sentimental cranks | A |
| First this one mounts his hinder hoofs | B |
| And brays the chimneys off the roofs | C |
| Then that one with exalted voice | D |
| Expounds the thesis of his choice | D |
| Our understandings to bombard | E |
| Till all the window panes are starred | E |
| A third augments the vocal shock | F |
| Till steeples to their bases rock | F |
| Confessing as they humbly nod | G |
| They hear and mark the will of God | G |
| A fourth in oral thunder vents | H |
| His awful penury of sense | I |
| Till dogs with sympathetic howls | J |
| And lowing cows and cackling fowls | J |
| Hens geese and all domestic birds | J |
| Attest the wisdom of his words | J |
| Cranks thus their intellects deflate | K |
| Of theories about the State | K |
| This one avers 'tis built on Truth | L |
| And that on Temperance This youth | L |
| Declares that Science bears the pile | M |
| That graybeard with a holy smile | M |
| Says Faith is the supporting stone | N |
| While women swear that Love alone | N |
| Could so unflinchingly endure | O |
| The heavy load And some are sure | O |
| The solemn vow of Christian Wedlock | F |
| Is the indubitable bedrock | F |
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| Physicians once about the bed | P |
| Of one whose life was nearly sped | P |
| Blew up a disputatious breeze | J |
| About the cause of his disease | J |
| This that and t' other thing they blamed | Q |
| 'Tut tut ' the dying man exclaimed | Q |
| 'What made me ill I do not care | R |
| You've not an ounce of it I'll swear | R |
| And if you had the skill to make it | S |
| I'd see you hanged before I'd take it ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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