The Foot-hill Resort Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDEFFGGHIJIKKLL| Assembled in the parlor | A |
| Of the place of last resort | B |
| The smiler and the snarler | A |
| And the guests of every sort | B |
| The elocution chap | C |
| With rhetoric on tap | C |
| The mimic and the funny dog | D |
| The social sponge the money hog | E |
| Vulgarian and dude | F |
| And the prude | F |
| The adiposing dame | G |
| With pimply face aflame | G |
| The kitten playful virgin | H |
| Vergin' on to fifty years | I |
| The solemn looking sturgeon | J |
| Of a firm of auctioneers | I |
| The widower flirtatious | K |
| The widow all too gracious | K |
| The man with a proboscis and a sepulcher beneath | L |
| One assassin picks the banjo and another picks his teeth | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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