The Piute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC ADDA EAAE FGHF ADDA IAAI JAAJ| Unbeautiful is the Piute | A |
| Howe'er bedecked with bravery | B |
| His person is unsavory | B |
| Of soap he's destitute | A |
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| He multiplies upon the earth | C |
| In spite of all admonishing | D |
| All censure his astonishing | D |
| And versatile unworth | C |
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| Upon the Reservation wide | A |
| We give for his inhabiting | D |
| He goes a jackass rabbiting | D |
| To furnish his inside | A |
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| The hopper singing in the grass | E |
| He seizes with avidity | A |
| He loves its tart acidity | A |
| And gobbles all that pass | E |
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| He penetrates the spider's veil | F |
| Industriously pillages | G |
| The toads' defenseless villages | H |
| And shadows home the snail | F |
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| He lightly runs to earth the quaint | A |
| Red worm and deftly troweling | D |
| He makes it with his boweling | D |
| Familiarly acquaint | A |
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| He tracks the pine nut to its lair | I |
| Surrounds it with celerity | A |
| Regards it with asperity | A |
| Smiles and it isn't there | I |
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| I wish he'd open up a grin | J |
| Of adequate vivacity | A |
| And carrying capacity | A |
| To take his Agent in | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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