The Last Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHIJJJKKGGL LMMNNOOPPQERRSSTTUUV VWWXXYYZE

I dreamed that Gabriel took his hornA
On Resurrection's fateful mornA
And lighting upon Laurel HillB
Blew long blew loud blew high and shrillB
The houses compassing the groundC
Rattled their windows at the soundC
But no one rose 'Alas ' said heD
'What lazy bones these mortals be 'E
Again he plied the horn againF
Deflating both his lungs in vainG
Then stood astonished and chagrinedH
At raising nothing but the windI
At last he caught the tranquil eyeJ
Of an observer standing byJ
Last of mankind not doomed to dieJ
To him thus Gabriel 'Sir I prayK
This mystery you'll clear awayK
Why do I sound my note in vainG
Why spring they not from out the plainG
Where's Luning Blythe and Michael ReeseL
Magee who ran the Golden FleeceL
Where's Asa Fisk Jim Phelan whoM
Was thought to know a thing or twoM
Of land which rose but never sankN
Where's Con O'Conor of the BankN
And all who consecrated landsO
Of old by laying on of handsO
I ask of them because their worthP
Was known in all they wished the earthP
Brisk boomers once alert and wiseQ
Why don't they rise why don't they rise 'E
The man replied 'Reburied longR
With others of the shrouded throngR
In San Mateo carted thereS
And dumped promiscuous anywhereS
In holes and trenches all misfitsT
Mixed up with one another's bitsT
One's back bone with another's shinU
A third one's skull with a fourth one's grinU
Your eye was never never fixedV
Upon a company so mixedV
Go now among them there and blowW
'Twill be as good as any showW
To see them when they hear the tonesX
Compiling one another's bonesX
But here 'tis vain to sound and waitY
Naught rises here but real estateY
I own it all and shan't disgorgeZ
Don't know me I am Henry George 'E

Ambrose Bierce



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