The Shafter Shafted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACCDEDEEDFF GHGHHGHH| Well James McMillan Shafter you're a Judge | A |
| At least you were when last I knew of you | B |
| And if the people since have made you budge | A |
| I did not notice it I've much to do | B |
| Without endeavoring to follow through | B |
| The miserable squabbles dust and smudge | A |
| The fate of even the veteran contenders | C |
| Who fight with flying colors and suspenders | C |
| Being a Judge 'tis natural and wrong | D |
| That you should villify the public press | E |
| Save while you are a candidate That song | D |
| Is easy quite to sing and I confess | E |
| It wins applause from hearers who have less | E |
| Of spiritual graces than belong | D |
| To audiences of another kidney | F |
| Men for example like Sir Philip Sidney | F |
| - | |
| Newspapers so you say don't always treat | G |
| The Judges with respect That may be so | H |
| And still no harm done for I swear I'll eat | G |
| My legs and in the long hereafter go | H |
| Snake like upon my belly if you'll show | H |
| All Judges are respectable and sweet | G |
| For some of them are rogues and the world's laughter's | H |
| Directed at some others for they're Shafters | H |
Ambrose Bierce
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