T.a.h. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCBDAEFEGHHFIIJ KKJFHH| YES he was that or that as you prefer | A |
| Did so and so though faith it was n t all | B |
| Lived like a fool or a philosopher | A |
| And had whatever s needful to a fall | B |
| As rough inflections on a planet merge | C |
| In the true bend of the gigantic sphere | D |
| Nor mar the perfect circle of its verge | C |
| So in the survey of his worth the small | B |
| Asperities of spirit disappear | D |
| Lost in the grander curves of character | A |
| He lately was hit hard none knew but I | E |
| The strength and terror of that ghastly stroke | F |
| Not even herself He uttered not a cry | E |
| But set his teeth and made a revelry | G |
| Drank like a devil staining sometimes red | H |
| The goblet s edge diced with his conscience spread | H |
| Like Sisyphus a feast for Death and spoke | F |
| His welcome in a tongue so long forgot | I |
| That even his ancient guest remembered not | I |
| What race had cursed him in it Thus my friend | J |
| Still conjugating with each failing sense | K |
| The verb to die in every mood and tense | K |
| Pursued his awful humor to the end | J |
| When like a stormy dawn the crimson broke | F |
| From his white lips he smiled and mutely bled | H |
| And having meanly lived is grandly dead | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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