The Last Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHIJJJKKGGL LMMNNOOPPQERRSSTTUUV VWWXXYYZEI dreamed that Gabriel took his horn | A |
On Resurrection's fateful morn | A |
And lighting upon Laurel Hill | B |
Blew long blew loud blew high and shrill | B |
The houses compassing the ground | C |
Rattled their windows at the sound | C |
But no one rose 'Alas ' said he | D |
'What lazy bones these mortals be ' | E |
Again he plied the horn again | F |
Deflating both his lungs in vain | G |
Then stood astonished and chagrined | H |
At raising nothing but the wind | I |
At last he caught the tranquil eye | J |
Of an observer standing by | J |
Last of mankind not doomed to die | J |
To him thus Gabriel 'Sir I pray | K |
This mystery you'll clear away | K |
Why do I sound my note in vain | G |
Why spring they not from out the plain | G |
Where's Luning Blythe and Michael Reese | L |
Magee who ran the Golden Fleece | L |
Where's Asa Fisk Jim Phelan who | M |
Was thought to know a thing or two | M |
Of land which rose but never sank | N |
Where's Con O'Conor of the Bank | N |
And all who consecrated lands | O |
Of old by laying on of hands | O |
I ask of them because their worth | P |
Was known in all they wished the earth | P |
Brisk boomers once alert and wise | Q |
Why don't they rise why don't they rise ' | E |
The man replied 'Reburied long | R |
With others of the shrouded throng | R |
In San Mateo carted there | S |
And dumped promiscuous anywhere | S |
In holes and trenches all misfits | T |
Mixed up with one another's bits | T |
One's back bone with another's shin | U |
A third one's skull with a fourth one's grin | U |
Your eye was never never fixed | V |
Upon a company so mixed | V |
Go now among them there and blow | W |
'Twill be as good as any show | W |
To see them when they hear the tones | X |
Compiling one another's bones | X |
But here 'tis vain to sound and wait | Y |
Naught rises here but real estate | Y |
I own it all and shan't disgorge | Z |
Don't know me I am Henry George ' | E |
Ambrose Bierce
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