One Of The Saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEEAAFFGGHIJ JKILIMMNNOOGGG| Big Smith is an Oakland School Board man | A |
| And he looks as good as ever he can | A |
| And he's such a cold and a chaste Big Smith | B |
| That snowflakes all are his kin and kith | B |
| Wherever his eye he chances to throw | C |
| The crystals of ice begin to grow | C |
| And the fruits and flowers he sees are lost | D |
| By the singeing touch of a sudden frost | D |
| The women all shiver whenever he's near | E |
| And look upon us with a look austere | E |
| Effect of the Smithian atmosphere | E |
| Such in a word is the moral plan | A |
| Of the Big Big Smith the School Board man | A |
| When told that Madame Ferrier had taught | F |
| Hernani in school his fist he brought | F |
| Like a trip hammer down on his bulbous knee | G |
| And he roared 'Her Nanny By gum we'll see | G |
| If the public's time she dares devote | H |
| To the educatin' of any dam goat ' | I |
| 'You do not entirely comprehend | J |
| Hernani's a play ' said his learned friend | J |
| 'By Victor Hugo immoral and bad | K |
| What's worse it's French ' 'Well well my lad ' | I |
| Said Smith 'if he cuts a swath so wide | L |
| I'll have him took re'glar up and tried ' | I |
| And he smiled so sweetly the other chap | M |
| Thought that himself was a Finn or Lapp | M |
| Caught in a storm of his native snows | N |
| With a purple ear and an azure nose | N |
| The Smith continued 'I never pursue | O |
| Immoral readin' ' And that is true | O |
| He's a saint of remarkably high degree | G |
| With a mind as chaste as a mind can be | G |
| But read the devil a word can he | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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