Philosopher Bimm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDE FGFG DDD HDHD EAEA IEIE| Republicans think Jonas Bimm | A |
| A Democrat gone mad | B |
| And Democrats consider him | A |
| Republican and bad | B |
| - | |
| The Tough reviles him as a Dude | C |
| And gives it him right hot | D |
| The Dude condemns his crassitude | D |
| And calls him sans culottes | E |
| - | |
| Derided as an Anglophile | F |
| By Anglophobes forsooth | G |
| As Anglophobe he feels the while | F |
| The Anglophilic tooth | G |
| - | |
| The Churchman calls him Atheist | D |
| The Atheists rough shod | D |
| Have ridden o'er him long and hissed | D |
| 'The wretch believes in God ' | - |
| - | |
| The Saints whom clergymen we call | H |
| Would kill him if they could | D |
| The Sinners scientists and all | H |
| Complain that he is good | D |
| - | |
| All men deplore the difference | E |
| Between themselves and him | A |
| And all devise expedients | E |
| For paining Jonas Bimm | A |
| - | |
| I too with wild demoniac glee | I |
| Would put out both his eyes | E |
| For Mr Bimm appears to me | I |
| Insufferably wise | E |
Ambrose Bierce
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