Four Candidates For Senator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FFGG HIHI JKJK LLMMNNOO| To flatter your way to the goad of your hope | A |
| O plausible Mr Perkins | B |
| You'll need ten tons of the softest soap | A |
| And butter a thousand firkins | C |
| The soap you could put to a better use | D |
| In washing your hands of ambition | E |
| Ere the butter's used for cooking your goose | D |
| To a beautiful brown condition | E |
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| 'The Railroad can't run Stanford ' That is so | F |
| The tail can't curl the pig but then you know | F |
| Inside the vegetable garden's pale | G |
| The pig will eat more cabbage than the tail | G |
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| When Sargent struts by all the lawmakers say | H |
| 'Right left ' It is fair to infer | I |
| The right will get left nor polar the day | H |
| When he makes that thing to occur | I |
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| Not so not so 'tis a joke that cry | J |
| Foolish and dull and small | K |
| He so bores them for votes that they mean to imply | J |
| He's a drill Sargent that is all | K |
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| Gods what a sight Astride McClure's broad back | L |
| Estee jogs round the Senatorial track | L |
| The crowd all undecided as they pass | M |
| Whether to cheer the man or cheer the ass | M |
| They stop the man to lower his feet is seen | N |
| And the tired beast withdrawing from between | N |
| Mounts as they start again the biped's neck | O |
| And scarce the crowd can say which one's on deck | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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