A Cheating Preacher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEAAFFCCCGGHHI ICCJJCCKKLL| Munhall to save my soul you bravely try | A |
| Although to save my soul I can't say why | A |
| 'Tis naught to you to me however much | B |
| Why bless it you might save a million such | B |
| Yet lose your own for still the 'means of grace' | C |
| That you employ to turn us from the place | C |
| By the arch enemy of souls frequented | D |
| Are those which to ensnare us he invented | E |
| I do not say you utter falsehoods I | A |
| Would scorn to give to ministers the lie | A |
| They cannot fight their calling has estopped it | F |
| True I did not persuade them to adopt it | F |
| But Munhall when you say the Devil dwells | C |
| In all the breasts of all the infidels | C |
| Making a lot of individual Hells | C |
| In gentlemen instinctively who shrink | G |
| From thinking anything that you could think | G |
| You talk as I should if some world I trod | H |
| Where lying is acceptable to God | H |
| I don't at all object forbid it Heaven | I |
| That your discourse you temperately leaven | I |
| With airy reference to wicked souls | C |
| Cursing impenitent on glowing coals | C |
| Nor quarrel with your fancy blithe and fine | J |
| Which represents the wickedest as mine | J |
| Each ornament of style my spirit eases | C |
| The subject saddens but the manner pleases | C |
| But when you 'deal damnation round' 'twere sweet | K |
| To think hereafter that you did not cheat | K |
| Deal and let all accept what you allot 'em | L |
| But blast you you are dealing from the bottom | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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