Lusus Politicus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABCDDEDFFDGHIIHJK EELLKKKMMJJKAAKKKKNA NAOOPPQQKK KOK O| Come in old gentleman How do you do | A |
| Delighted I'm sure that you've called | B |
| I'm a sociable sort of a chap and you | A |
| Are a pleasant appearing person too | A |
| With a head agreeably bald | B |
| That's right sit down in the scuttle of coal | C |
| And put up your feet in a chair | D |
| It is better to have them there | D |
| And I've always said that a hat of lead | E |
| Such as I see you wear | D |
| Was a better hat than a hat of glass | F |
| And your boots of brass | F |
| Are a natural kind of boots I swear | D |
| 'May you blow your nose on a paper of pins ' | G |
| Why certainly man why not | H |
| I rather expected you'd do it before | I |
| When I saw you poking it in at the door | I |
| It's dev'lish hot | H |
| The weather I mean 'You are twins' | J |
| Why that was evident at the start | K |
| From the way that you paint your head | E |
| In stripes of purple and red | E |
| With dots of yellow | L |
| That proves you a fellow | L |
| With a love of legitimate art | K |
| 'You've bitten a snake and are feeling bad' | K |
| That's very sad | K |
| But Longfellow's words I beg to recall | M |
| Your lot is the common lot of all | M |
| 'Horses are trees and the moon is a sneeze' | J |
| That I fancy is just as you please | J |
| Some think that way and others hold | K |
| The opposite view | A |
| I never quite knew | A |
| For the matter o' that | K |
| When everything's been said | K |
| May I offer this mat | K |
| If you will stand on your head | K |
| I suppose I look to be upside down | N |
| From your present point of view | A |
| It's a giddy old world from king to clown | N |
| And a topsy turvy too | A |
| But worthy and now uninverted old man | O |
| You're built at least on a normal plan | O |
| If ever a truth I spoke | P |
| Smoke | P |
| Your air and conversation | Q |
| Are a liberal education | Q |
| And your clothes including the metal hat | K |
| And the brazen boots what's that | K |
| - | |
| 'You never could stomach a Democrat | K |
| Since General Jackson ran | O |
| You're another sort but you predict | K |
| That your party'll get consummately licked ' | - |
| Good God what a queer old man | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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