A Hasty Inference Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHG IJI KLKL MHM NON| The Devil one day coming up from the Pit | A |
| All grimy with perspiration | B |
| Applied to St Peter and begged he'd admit | A |
| Him a moment for consultation | B |
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| The Saint showed him in where the Master reclined | C |
| On the throne where petitioners sought him | D |
| Both bowed and the Evil One opened his mind | C |
| Concerning the business that brought him | D |
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| 'For ten million years I've been kept in a stew | E |
| Because you have thought me immoral | F |
| And though I have had my opinion of you | E |
| You've had the best end of the quarrel | F |
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| 'But now well I venture to hope that the past | G |
| With its misunderstandings we'll smother | H |
| And you sir and I sir be throned here at last | G |
| As equals the one to the other ' | - |
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| 'Indeed ' said the Master I cannot convey | I |
| A sense of his tone by mere letters | J |
| 'What makes you presume you'll be bidden to stay | I |
| Up here on such terms with your betters ' | - |
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| 'Why sure you can't mean it ' said Satan 'I've seen | K |
| How Stanford and Crocker you've nourished | L |
| And Huntington bless me the three like a green | K |
| Umbrageous great bay tree have flourished | L |
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| They are fat they are rolling in gold they command | M |
| All sources and well springs of power | H |
| You've given them houses you've given them land | M |
| Before them the righteous all cower ' | - |
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| 'What of that ' 'What of that ' cried the Father of Sin | N |
| 'Why I thought when I saw you were winking | O |
| At crimes such as theirs that perhaps you had been | N |
| Converted to my way of thinking ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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