Polyphemus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGF HIHI JKJ JJJJ KLK| Twas a sick young man with a face ungay | A |
| And an eye that was all alone | B |
| And he shook his head in a hopeless way | C |
| As he sat on a roadside stone | B |
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| 'O ailing youth what untoward fate | D |
| Has made the sun to set | E |
| On your mirth and eye ' 'I'm constrained to state | D |
| I'm an ex West Point cadet | E |
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| ''Twas at cannon practice I got my hurt | F |
| And my present frame of mind | G |
| For the gun went off with a double spurt | F |
| Before it and also behind ' | - |
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| 'How sad how sad that a fine young chap | H |
| When studying how to kill | I |
| Should meet with so terrible a mishap | H |
| Precluding eventual skill | I |
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| 'Ah woful to think that a weapon made | J |
| For mowing down the foe | K |
| Should commit so dreadful an escapade | J |
| As to turn about to mow ' | - |
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| No more he heeded while I condoled | J |
| He was wandering in his mind | J |
| His lonely eye unconsidered rolled | J |
| And his views he thus defined | J |
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| ''Twas O for a breach of the peace 'twas O | K |
| For an international brawl | L |
| But a piece of the breech ah no ah no | K |
| I didn't want that at all ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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