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The Pun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFGHIIGGJ KK LLMM NNGG

Hail peerless Pun thou last and bestA
Most rare and excellent bequestA
Of dying idiot to the witB
He died of rat like in a pitB
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Thyself disguised in many a wayC
Thou let'st thy sudden splendor playC
Adorning all where'er it turnsD
As the revealing bull's eye burnsD
Of the dim thief and plays its trickE
Upon the lock he means to pickE
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Yet sometimes too thou dost appearF
As boldly as a brigadierF
Tricked out with marks and signs all o'erG
Of rank brigade division corpsH
To show by every means he canI
An officer is not a manI
Or naked with a lordly swaggerG
Proud as a cur without a waggerG
Who says 'See simple worth prevailJ
All dog sir not a bit of tail '-
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'T is then men give thee loudest welcomeK
As if thou wert a soul from Hell comeK
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O obvious Pun thou hast the graceL
Of skeleton clock without a caseL
With all its boweling displayedM
And all its organs on paradeM
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Dear Pun you're common ground of blissN
Where Punch and I can meet and kissN
Than thee my wit can stoop no low'rG
No higher his does ever soarG

Ambrose Bierce



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