To 'colonel' Dan. Burns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACC DEDEEDFF GHGHHGCC| They say my lord that you're a Warwick Well | A |
| The title's an absurd one I believe | B |
| You make no kings you have no kings to sell | A |
| Though really 'twere easy to conceive | B |
| You stuffing half a dozen up your sleeve | B |
| No you're no Warwick skillful from the shell | A |
| To hatch out sovereigns On a mare's nest maybe | C |
| You'd incubate a little jackass baby | C |
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| I fancy too that it is naught but stuff | D |
| This 'power' that you're said to be 'behind | E |
| The throne ' I'm sure 'twere accurate enough | D |
| To represent you simply as inclined | E |
| To push poor Markham ailing in his mind | E |
| And body which were never very tough | D |
| Round in an invalid's wheeled chair Such menial | F |
| Employment to low natures is congenial | F |
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| No Dan you're an impostor every way | G |
| A human bubble for 'the earth ' you know | H |
| 'Hath bubbles as the water hath ' Some day | G |
| Some careless hand will prick your film and O | H |
| How utterly you'll vanish Daniel throw | H |
| As fallen Woolsey might to Cromwell say | G |
| Your curst ambition to the pigs though truly | C |
| 'Twould make them greater pigs and more unruly | C |
Ambrose Bierce
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