The Man Born Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFE GHGH IFI JKJ JLJ MNM JJJJ OJOJ JFJF PJPJ JFJ KQKQ RSRS| A man born blind received his sight | A |
| By a painful operation | B |
| And these are things he saw in the light | A |
| Of an infant observation | B |
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| He saw a merchant good and wise | C |
| And greatly too respected | D |
| Who looked to those imperfect eyes | C |
| Like a swindler undetected | D |
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| He saw a patriot address | E |
| A noisy public meeting | F |
| And said 'Why that's a calf I guess | E |
| That for the teat is bleating ' | - |
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| A doctor stood beside a bed | G |
| And shook his summit sadly | H |
| 'O see that foul assassin ' said | G |
| The man who saw so badly | H |
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| He saw a lawyer pleading for | I |
| A thief whom they'd been jailing | F |
| And said 'That's an accomplice or | I |
| My sight again is failing ' | - |
| - | |
| Upon the Bench a Justice sat | J |
| With nothing to restrain him | K |
| ''Tis strange ' said the observer 'that | J |
| They ventured to unchain him ' | - |
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| With theologic works supplied | J |
| He saw a solemn preacher | L |
| 'A burglar with his kit ' he cried | J |
| 'To rob a fellow creature ' | - |
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| A bluff old farmer next he saw | M |
| Sell produce in a village | N |
| And said 'What what is there no law | M |
| To punish men for pillage ' | - |
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| A dame tall fair and stately passed | J |
| Who many charms united | J |
| He thanked his stars his lot was cast | J |
| Where sepulchers were whited | J |
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| He saw a soldier stiff and stern | O |
| 'Full of strange oaths' and toddy | J |
| But was unable to discern | O |
| A wound upon his body | J |
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| Ten square leagues of rolling ground | J |
| To one great man belonging | F |
| Looked like one little grassy mound | J |
| With worms beneath it thronging | F |
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| A palace's well carven stones | P |
| Where Dives dwelt contented | J |
| Seemed built throughout of human bones | P |
| With human blood cemented | J |
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| He watched the yellow shining thread | J |
| A silk worm was a spinning | F |
| 'That creature's coining gold ' he said | J |
| 'To pay some girl for sinning ' | - |
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| His eyes were so untrained and dim | K |
| All politics religions | Q |
| Arts sciences appeared to him | K |
| But modes of plucking pigeons | Q |
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| And so he drew his final breath | R |
| And thought he saw with sorrow | S |
| Some persons weeping for his death | R |
| Who'd be all smiles to morrow | S |
Ambrose Bierce
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