From The Minutes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDAEBEAAFAGHFIHG| When with the force of a ram that discharges its ponderous body | A |
| Straight at the rear elevation of the luckless culler of simples | B |
| The foot of Herculean Kilgore statesman of surname suggestive | C |
| Or carnage unspeakable lit like a missile prodigious | B |
| Upon the Congressional door with a monstrous and mighty momentum | D |
| Causing that vain ineffective bar to political freedom | D |
| To fly from its hinges effacing the nasal excrescence of Dingley | A |
| That luckless one decently veiling the ruin with ready bandanna | E |
| Lamented the loss of his eminence sadly with sobs as follows | B |
| 'Ah why was I ever elected to the halls of legislation | E |
| So soon to be shown the door with pitiless emphasis Truly | A |
| I've leaned on a broken Reed and the same has gone back on me meanly | A |
| Where now is my prominence erstwhile in council conspicuous patent | F |
| Alas I did never before understand what I now see clearly | A |
| To wit that Democracy tends to level all human distinctions ' | G |
| His fate so untoward and sad the Pine tree statesman bewailing | H |
| Stood in the corridor there while Democrats freed from confinement | F |
| Came trooping forth from the chamber dissembling all as they passed him | I |
| Hilarious sentiments painful indeed to observe and remarking | H |
| 'O friend and colleague of the Speaker what ails the unjoyous proboscis ' | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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