A Poet's Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDCD EBD CFGF HBAB GDG ECE| 'Twas a weary looking mortal and he wandered near the portal | A |
| Of the melancholy City of the Discontented Dead | B |
| He was pale and worn exceeding and his manner was unheeding | C |
| As if it could not matter what he did nor what he said | B |
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| 'Sacred stranger' I addressed him with a reverence befitting | C |
| The austere unintermitting dread solemnity he wore | D |
| 'Tis the custom too prevailing in that vicinage when hailing | C |
| One who possibly may be a person lately 'gone before' | D |
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| 'Sacred stranger much I ponder on your evident dejection | E |
| But my carefulest reflection leaves the riddle still unread | B |
| How do you yourself explain your dismal tendency to wander | D |
| By the melancholy City of the Discontented Dead ' | - |
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| Then that solemn person pausing in the march that he was making | C |
| Roused himself as if awaking fixed his dull and stony eye | F |
| On my countenance and slowly like a priest devout and holy | G |
| Chanted in a mournful monotone the following reply | F |
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| 'O my brother do not fear it I'm no disembodied spirit | H |
| I am Lampton the Slang Poet with a price upon my head | B |
| I am watching by this portal for some late lamented mortal | A |
| To arise in his disquietude and leave his earthy bed | B |
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| 'Then I hope to take possession and pull in the earth above me | G |
| And renouncing my profession ne'er be heard of any more | D |
| For there's not a soul to love me and no living thing respects me | G |
| Which so painfully affects me that I fain would 'go before '' | - |
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| Then I felt a deep compassion for the gentleman's dejection | E |
| For privation of affection would refrigerate a frog | C |
| So I said 'If nothing human and if neither man nor woman | E |
| Can appreciate the fashion of your merit buy a dog ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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