The God's View-point Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKK AALLMMNNOOPPDDQQ AAHHRSTT ADDDDUUVVDDDDWWXXYYZ ZA2A2B2 DDC2C2DDD2D2 AAE2E2CC| Cheeta Raibama Chunder Sen | A |
| The wisest and the best of men | A |
| Betook him to the place where sat | B |
| With folded feet upon a mat | B |
| Of precious stones beneath a palm | C |
| In sweet and everlasting calm | C |
| That ancient and immortal gent | D |
| The God of Rational Content | D |
| As tranquil and unmoved as Fate | E |
| The deity reposed in state | E |
| With palm to palm and sole to sole | F |
| And beaded breast and beetling jowl | G |
| And belly spread upon his thighs | H |
| And costly diamonds for eyes | H |
| As Chunder Sen approached and knelt | I |
| To show the reverence he felt | I |
| Then beat his head upon the sod | J |
| To prove his fealty to the god | J |
| And then by gestures signified | K |
| The other sentiments inside | K |
| The god's right eye as Chunder Sen | A |
| The wisest and the best of men | A |
| Half fancied grew by just a thought | L |
| More narrow than it truly ought | L |
| Yet still that prince of devotees | M |
| Persistent upon bended knees | M |
| And elbows bored into the earth | N |
| Declared the god's exceeding worth | N |
| And begged his favor Then at last | O |
| Within that cavernous and vast | O |
| Thoracic space was heard a sound | P |
| Like that of water underground | P |
| A gurgling note that found a vent | D |
| At mouth of that Immortal Gent | D |
| In such a chuckle as no ear | Q |
| Had e'er been privileged to hear | Q |
| - | |
| Cheeta Raibama Chunder Sen | A |
| The wisest greatest best of men | A |
| Heard with a natural surprise | H |
| That mighty midriff improvise | H |
| And greater yet the marvel was | R |
| When from between those massive jaws | S |
| Fell words to make the views more plain | T |
| The god was pleased to entertain | T |
| 'Cheeta Raibama Chunder Sen ' | - |
| So ran the rede in speech of men | A |
| 'Foremost of mortals in assent | D |
| To creed of Rational Content | D |
| Why come you here to impetrate | D |
| A blessing on your scurvy pate | D |
| Can you not rationally be | U |
| Content without disturbing me | U |
| Can you not take a hint a wink | V |
| Of what of all this rot I think | V |
| Is laughter lost upon you quite | D |
| To check you in your pious rite | D |
| What know you not we gods protest | D |
| That all religion is a jest | D |
| You take me seriously you | W |
| About me make a great ado | W |
| When I but wish to be alone | X |
| With attitudes supine and prone | X |
| With genuflexions and with prayers | Y |
| And putting on of solemn airs | Y |
| To draw my mind from the survey | Z |
| Of Rational Content away | Z |
| Learn once for all if learn you can | A2 |
| This truth significant to man | A2 |
| A pious person is by odds | B2 |
| The one most hateful to the gods ' | - |
| Then stretching forth his great right hand | D |
| Which shadowed all that sunny land | D |
| That deity bestowed a touch | C2 |
| Which Chunder Sen not overmuch | C2 |
| Enjoyed a touch divine that made | D |
| The sufferer hear stars They played | D |
| And sang as on Creation's morn | D2 |
| When spheric harmony was born | D2 |
| - | |
| Cheeta Raibama Chunder Sen | A |
| The most astonished man of men | A |
| Fell straight asleep and when he woke | E2 |
| The deity nor moved nor spoke | E2 |
| But sat beneath that ancient palm | C |
| In sweet and everlasting calm | C |
Ambrose Bierce
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