Lucifer Of The Torch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJJ KKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTT| O Reverend Ravlin once with sounding lung | A |
| You shook the bloody banner of your tongue | A |
| Urged all the fiery boycotters afield | B |
| And swore you'd rather follow them than yield | B |
| Alas how brief the time how great the change | C |
| Your dogs of war are ailing all of mange | C |
| The loose leash dangles from your finger tips | D |
| But the loud 'havoc' dies upon your lips | D |
| No spirit animates your feeble clay | E |
| You'd rather yield than even run away | E |
| In vain McGlashan labors to inspire | F |
| Your pallid nostril with his breath of fire | G |
| The light of battle's faded from your face | H |
| You keep the peace John Chinaman his place | H |
| O Ravlin what cold water thrown by whom | I |
| Upon the kindling Boycott's ruddy bloom | I |
| Has slaked your parching blood thirst and allayed | J |
| The flash and shimmer of your lingual blade | J |
| Your salary your salary's unpaid | J |
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| In the old days when Christ with scourges drave | K |
| The Ravlins headlong from the Temple's nave | K |
| Each bore upon his pelt the mark divine | L |
| The Boycott's red authenticating sign | L |
| Birth marked forever in surviving hurts | M |
| Glowing and smarting underneath their shirts | M |
| Successive Ravlins have revenged their shame | N |
| By blowing every coal and flinging flame | N |
| And you the latest may you be the last | O |
| Endorsed with that hereditary vast | O |
| And monstrous rubric would the feud prolong | P |
| Save that cupidity forbids the wrong | P |
| In strife you preferably pass your days | Q |
| But brawl no moment longer than it pays | Q |
| By shouting when no more you can incite | R |
| The dogs to put the timid sheep to flight | R |
| To load for you the brambles with their fleece | S |
| You cackle concord to congenial geese | S |
| Put pinches of goodwill upon their tails | T |
| And pluck them with a touch that never fails | T |
Ambrose Bierce
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