Religious Progress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DCCC EFGH IJKJ LCMC N O NPO QOOO RQOQ| Professor dear I think it queer | A |
| That all these good religions | B |
| 'Twixt you and me some two or three | C |
| Are schemes for plucking pigeons | B |
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| I mean 'tis strange that every change | D |
| Our poor minds to unfetter | C |
| Entails a new religion true | C |
| As t' other one and better | C |
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| From each in turn the truth we learn | E |
| That wood or flesh or spirit | F |
| May justly boast it rules the roast | G |
| Until we cease to fear it | H |
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| Nay once upon a time long gone | I |
| Man worshipped Cat and Lizard | J |
| His God he'd find in any kind | K |
| Of beast from a to izzard | J |
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| When risen above his early love | L |
| Of dirt and blood and slumber | C |
| He pulled down these vain deities | M |
| And made one out of lumber | C |
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| 'Far better that than even a cat ' | - |
| The Howisons all shouted | N |
| 'When God is wood religion's good ' | - |
| But one poor cynic doubted | O |
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| 'A timber God that's very odd ' | - |
| Said Progress and invented | N |
| The simple plan to worship Man | P |
| Who kindly soul consented | O |
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| But soon our eye we lift asky | Q |
| Our vows all unregarded | O |
| And find at least so says the priest | O |
| The Truth and Man's discarded | O |
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| Along our line of march recline | R |
| Dead gods devoid of feeling | Q |
| And thick about each sun cracked lout | O |
| Dried Howisons are kneeling | Q |
Ambrose Bierce
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