On The Platform Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFG A AHII| When Dr Bill Bartlett stepped out of the hum | A |
| Of Mammon's distracting and wearisome strife | B |
| To stand and deliver a lecture on 'Some | A |
| Conditions of Intellectual Life ' | C |
| I cursed the offender who gave him the hall | D |
| To lecture on any conditions at all | D |
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| But he rose with a fire divine in his eye | E |
| Haranguing with endless abundance of breath | F |
| Till I slept and I dreamed of a gibbet reared high | E |
| And Dr Bill Bartlett was dressing for death | F |
| And I thought in my dream 'These conditions no doubt | G |
| Are bad for the life he was talking about ' | - |
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| So I cried pray remember this all was a dream | A |
| 'Get off of the platform it isn't the kind ' | - |
| But he fell through the trap with a jerk at the beam | A |
| And wiggled his toes to unburden his mind | H |
| And O so bewitching the thoughts he advanced | I |
| That I clung to his ankles attentive entranced | I |
Ambrose Bierce
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