A Merciful Governor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBACD EFEFFEG AHAHHAI JBKBBBB| Standing within the triple wall of Hell | A |
| And flattening his nose against a grate | B |
| Behind whose brazen bars he'd had to dwell | A |
| A thousand million ages to that date | B |
| Stoneman bewailed his melancholy fate | B |
| And his big tear drops boiling as they fell | A |
| Had worn between his feet the record mentions | C |
| A deep depression in the 'good intentions ' | D |
| - | |
| Imperfectly by memory taught how | E |
| For prayer in Hell is a lost art he prayed | F |
| Uplifting his incinerated brow | E |
| And flaming hands in supplication's aid | F |
| 'O grant ' he cried 'my torment may be stayed | F |
| In mercy some short breathing spell allow | E |
| If one good deed I did before my ghosting | G |
| Spare me and give Delmas a double roasting ' | - |
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| Breathing a holy harmony in Hell | A |
| Down through the appalling clamors of the place | H |
| Charming them all to willing concord fell | A |
| A Voice ineffable and full of grace | H |
| 'Because of all the law defying race | H |
| One single malefactor of the cell | A |
| Thou didst not free from his incarceration | I |
| Take thou ten thousand years of condonation ' | - |
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| Back from their fastenings began to shoot | J |
| The rusted bolts with dreadful roar the gate | B |
| Laboriously turned and black with soot | K |
| The extinguished spirit passed that awful strait | B |
| And as he legged it into space elate | B |
| Muttered 'Yes I remember that galoot | B |
| I'd signed his pardon ready to allot it | B |
| But stuck it in my desk and quite forgot it ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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