Technology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FDFD DGDG HDHD DIDJ KLK DGD HMHM IMI NG G| 'Twas a serious person with locks of gray | A |
| And a figure like a crescent | B |
| His gravity clearly had come to stay | A |
| But his smile was evanescent | B |
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| He stood and conversed with a neighbor and | C |
| With likewise a high falsetto | D |
| And he stabbed his forefinger into his hand | E |
| As if it had been a stiletto | D |
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| His words like the notes of a tenor drum | F |
| Came out of his head unblended | D |
| And the wonderful altitude of some | F |
| Was exceptionally splendid | D |
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| While executing a shake of the head | D |
| With the hand as it were of a master | G |
| This agonizing old gentleman said | D |
| ''Twas a truly sad disaster | G |
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| 'Four hundred and ten longs and shorts in all | H |
| Went down' he paused and snuffled | D |
| A single tear was observed to fall | H |
| And the old man's drum was muffled | D |
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| 'A very calamitous year ' he said | D |
| And again his head piece hoary | I |
| He shook and another pearl he shed | D |
| As if he wept con amore | J |
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| 'O lacrymose person ' I cried 'pray why | K |
| Should these failures so affect you | L |
| With speculators in stocks no eye | K |
| That's normal would ever connect you ' | - |
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| He focused his orbs upon mine and smiled | D |
| In a sinister sort of manner | G |
| 'Young man ' he said 'your words are wild | D |
| I spoke of the steamship 'Hanner ' | - |
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| 'For she has went down in a howlin' squall | H |
| And my heart is nigh to breakin' | M |
| Four hundred and ten longs and shorts in all | H |
| Will never need undertakin' | M |
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| 'I'm in the business myself ' said he | I |
| 'And you've mistook my expression | M |
| For I uses the technical terms you see | I |
| Employed in my perfession ' | - |
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| That old undertaker has joined the throng | N |
| On the other side of the River | G |
| But I'm still unhappy to think I'm a 'long ' | - |
| And a tape line makes me shiver | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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