A False Prophecy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACC DEDEEDBB| Dom Pedro Emperor of far Brazil | A |
| Whence coffee comes and the three cornered nut | B |
| They say that you're imperially ill | A |
| And threatened with paralysis Tut tut | B |
| Though Emperors are mortal nothing but | B |
| A nimble thunderbolt could catch and kill | A |
| A man predestined to depart this life | C |
| By the assassin's bullet bomb or knife | C |
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| Sir once there was a President who freed | D |
| Ten million slaves and once there was a Czar | E |
| Who freed five times as many serfs Sins breed | D |
| The means of punishment and tyrants are | E |
| Hurled headlong out of the triumphal car | E |
| If faster than the law allows they speed | D |
| Lincoln and Alexander struck a rut | B |
| You freed slaves too Paralysis tut tut | B |
Ambrose Bierce
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