The Pun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFGHIIGGJ KK LLMM NNGG| Hail peerless Pun thou last and best | A |
| Most rare and excellent bequest | A |
| Of dying idiot to the wit | B |
| He died of rat like in a pit | B |
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| Thyself disguised in many a way | C |
| Thou let'st thy sudden splendor play | C |
| Adorning all where'er it turns | D |
| As the revealing bull's eye burns | D |
| Of the dim thief and plays its trick | E |
| Upon the lock he means to pick | E |
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| Yet sometimes too thou dost appear | F |
| As boldly as a brigadier | F |
| Tricked out with marks and signs all o'er | G |
| Of rank brigade division corps | H |
| To show by every means he can | I |
| An officer is not a man | I |
| Or naked with a lordly swagger | G |
| Proud as a cur without a wagger | G |
| Who says 'See simple worth prevail | J |
| All dog sir not a bit of tail ' | - |
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| 'T is then men give thee loudest welcome | K |
| As if thou wert a soul from Hell come | K |
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| O obvious Pun thou hast the grace | L |
| Of skeleton clock without a case | L |
| With all its boweling displayed | M |
| And all its organs on parade | M |
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| Dear Pun you're common ground of bliss | N |
| Where Punch and I can meet and kiss | N |
| Than thee my wit can stoop no low'r | G |
| No higher his does ever soar | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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