'peaceable Expulsion' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBC D C EFGFHIJKLMM M NFOOP C MOBQRF S PPBBBMBBMMTMTMMMOOMM MUMMU R VVWWBAA B OTOMVM C CBX M MMY R UZWRMCA2M MN C MP R B2C2D2C2 O MMA M M E2E2MM C MM B M B| DRAMATIS PERSONAE | A |
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| MOUNTWAVE a Politician | B |
| HARDHAND a Workingman | B |
| TOK BAK a Chinaman | B |
| SATAN a Friend to Mountwave | C |
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| CHORUS OF FOREIGN VOTERS | D |
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| MOUNTWAVE | C |
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| My friend I beg that you will lend your ears | E |
| I know 'tis asking a good deal of you | F |
| While I for your instruction nominate | G |
| Some certain wrongs you suffer Men like you | F |
| Imperfectly are sensible of all | H |
| The miseries they actually feel | I |
| Hence Providence has prudently raised up | J |
| Clear sighted men like me to diagnose | K |
| Their cases and inform them where they're hurt | L |
| The wounds of honest workingmen I've made | M |
| A specialty and probing them's my trade | M |
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| HARDHAND | M |
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| Well Mister s'pose you let yer bossest eye | N |
| Camp on my mortal part awhile then you | F |
| Jes' toot my sufferin's an' tell me what's | O |
| The fashionable caper now in writhes | O |
| The very swellest wiggle | P |
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| MOUNTWAVE | C |
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| Well my lad | M |
| 'Tis plain as is the long conspicuous nose | O |
| Borne ponderous and pendulous between | B |
| The elephant's remarkable eye teeth | Q |
| Enter Tok Bak | R |
| That Chinese competition's what ails you | F |
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| BOTH Singing | S |
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| O pig tail Celestial | P |
| O barbarous bestial | P |
| Abominable Chinee | B |
| Simian fellow man | B |
| Primitive yellow man | B |
| Joshian devotee | M |
| Shoe and cigar machine | B |
| Oleomargarine | B |
| You are and butter are we | M |
| Fat of the land are we | M |
| Salt of the earth | T |
| In God's image planned to be | M |
| Noble in birth | T |
| You on the contrary | M |
| Modeled upon very | M |
| Different lines indeed | M |
| Show in conspicuous | O |
| Base and ridiculous | O |
| Ways your inferior breed | M |
| Wretched apology | M |
| Shame of ethnology | M |
| Monster unspeakably low | U |
| Fit to be buckshotted | M |
| Be you 'steboycotted | M |
| Vanish vamoose mosy Go | U |
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| TOK BAK | R |
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| You listen me You beatee the big dlum | V |
| An' tell me go to Flowly Kingdom Come | V |
| You all too muchee fool You chinnee heap | W |
| Such talkee like my washee belly cheap | W |
| Enter Satan | B |
| You dlive me outee clunty towns all way | A |
| Why you no tackle me Safflisco hay | A |
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| SATAN | B |
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| Methought I heard a murmuring of tongues | O |
| Sound through the ceiling of the hollow earth | T |
| As if the anti coolie ques ha friends | O |
| Well met You see I keep my ancient word | M |
| Where two or three are gathered in my name | V |
| There am I in their midst | M |
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| MOUNTWAVE | C |
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| O monstrous thief | C |
| To quote the words of Shakespeare as your own | B |
| I know his work | X |
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| HARDHAND | M |
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| Who's Shakespeare what's his trade | M |
| I've heard about the work o' that galoot | M |
| Till I'm jest sick | Y |
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| TOK BAK | R |
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| Go Sunny school you'll know | U |
| Mo' Bible Bime by pleach hell talkee Tell | Z |
| 'Bout Abel mebby so he live too cheap | W |
| He mebby all time dig on lanch no dlink | R |
| No splee no go plocession fo' make vote | M |
| No sendee money out of clunty fo' | C |
| To helpee Ilishmen Cain killum Josh | A2 |
| He catchee at it an' he belly mad | M |
| Say 'Allee Melicans boycottee Cain ' | - |
| Not muchee you no pleachee that | M |
| You all same lie | N |
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| MOUNTWAVE | C |
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| This cuss must be expelled | M |
| Draws pistol | P |
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| MOUNTWAVE HARDHAND SATAN singing | R |
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| For Chinese expulsion hurrah | B2 |
| To mobbing and murder all hail | C2 |
| Away with your justice and law | D2 |
| We'll make every pagan turn tail | C2 |
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| CHORUS OF FOREIGN VOTERS | O |
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| Bedad oof dot tief o'ze vorld | M |
| Zat Ivan Tchanay vos got hurled | M |
| In Hella da debil he say | A |
| 'Wor be yer return pairmit hey ' | - |
| Und gry as 'e shaka da boot | M |
| 'Zis haythen haf nevaire been oot ' | - |
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| HARDHAND | M |
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| Too many cooks are working at this broth | E2 |
| I think by thunder t'will be mostly froth | E2 |
| I'm cussed ef I can sarvy up to date | M |
| What good this dern fandango does the State | M |
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| MOUNTWAVE | C |
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| The State's advantage sir you may not see | M |
| But think how good it is for me | M |
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| SATAN | B |
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| And me | M |
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| Curtain | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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