From Top To Bottom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GAGAHH IJIJKK LMLMNN| O Buddha had you but foreknown | A |
| The vices of your priesthood | B |
| It would have made you twist and moan | A |
| As any wounded beast would | B |
| You would have damned the entire lot | C |
| And turned a Christian would you not | C |
| - | |
| There were no Christians I'll allow | D |
| In your day that would only | E |
| Have brought distinction Even now | D |
| A Christian might feel lonely | E |
| All take the name but facts are things | F |
| As stubborn as the will of kings | F |
| - | |
| The priests were ignorant and low | G |
| When ridiculed by Lucian | A |
| The records could we read might show | G |
| The same of times Confucian | A |
| And yet the fact I can't disguise | H |
| That Deacon Rankin's good and wise | H |
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| 'Tis true he is not quite a priest | I |
| Nor more than half a preacher | J |
| But he exhorts as loud at least | I |
| As any living creature | J |
| And when the plate is passed about | K |
| He never takes a penny out | K |
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| From Buddha down to Rankin There | L |
| I never did intend to | M |
| This pen's a buzzard's quill I swear | L |
| Such subjects to descend to | M |
| When from the humming bird I've wrung | N |
| A plume I'll write of Mike de Young | N |
Ambrose Bierce
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