Two Shows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGBHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOPP| The showman blessing in a thousand shapes | A |
| Parades a 'School of Educated Apes ' | B |
| Small education's needed I opine | C |
| Or native wit to make a monkey shine | C |
| The brute exhibited has naught to do | D |
| But ape the larger apes who come to view | D |
| The hoodlum with his horrible grimace | E |
| Long upper lip and furtive shuffling pace | F |
| Significant reminders of the time | G |
| When hunters not policemen made him climb | G |
| The lady loafer with her draggling 'trail ' | B |
| That free translation of an ancient tail | H |
| The sand lot quadrumane in hairy suit | I |
| Whose heels are thumbs perverted by the boot | I |
| The painted actress throwing down the gage | J |
| To elder artists of the sylvan stage | J |
| Proving that in the time of Noah's flood | K |
| Two ape skins held her whole profession's blood | K |
| The critic waiting like a hungry pup | L |
| To write the school perhaps to eat it up | L |
| As chance or luck occasion may reveal | M |
| To earn a dollar or maraud a meal | M |
| To view the school of apes these creatures go | N |
| Unconscious that themselves are half the show | N |
| These if the simian his course but trim | O |
| To copy them as they have copied him | O |
| Will call him 'educated ' Of a verity | P |
| There's much to learn by study of posterity | P |
Ambrose Bierce
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