On A Proposed Crematory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIGJGKGLGMNMO PQGGGGGRSTUGNGGVOGGW XYZA2| When a fair bridge is builded o'er the gulf | A |
| Between two cities some ambitious fool | B |
| Hot for distinction pleads for earliest leave | C |
| To push his clumsy feet upon the span | D |
| That men in after years may single him | E |
| Saying 'Behold the fool who first went o'er ' | F |
| So be it when as now the promise is | G |
| Next summer sees the edifice complete | H |
| Which some do name a crematorium | I |
| Within the vantage of whose greater maw's | G |
| Quicker digestion we shall cheat the worm | J |
| And circumvent the handed mole who loves | G |
| With tunnel adit drift and roomy stope | K |
| To mine our mortal parts in all their dips | G |
| And spurs and angles Let the fool stand forth | L |
| To link his name with this fair enterprise | G |
| As first decarcassed by the flame And if | M |
| With rival greedings for the fiery fame | N |
| They push in clamoring multitudes or if | M |
| With unaccustomed modesty they all | O |
| Hold off being something loth to qualify | P |
| Let me select the fittest for the rite | Q |
| By heaven I'll make so warrantable wise | G |
| And excellent censure of their true deserts | G |
| And such a searching canvass of their claims | G |
| That none shall bait the ballot I'll spread my choice | G |
| Upon the main and general of those | G |
| Who moved of holy impulse pulpit born | R |
| Protested 'twere a sacrilege to burn | S |
| God's gracious images designed to rot | T |
| And bellowed for the right of way for each | U |
| Distempered carrion through the water pipes | G |
| With such a sturdy boisterous exclaim | N |
| They did discharge themselves from their own throats | G |
| Against the splintered gates of audience | G |
| 'Twere wholesomer to take them in at mouth | V |
| Than ear These shall burn first their ignible | O |
| And seasoned substances trunks legs and arms | G |
| Blent indistinguishable in a mass | G |
| Like winter woven serpents in a pit | W |
| None vantaged of his fellow fools in point | X |
| Of precedence and all alive shall serve | Y |
| As fueling to fervor the retort | Z |
| For after cineration of true men | A2 |
Ambrose Bierce
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