A Possibility Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAACCAADDDDBBEFG| If the wicked gods were willing | A |
| Pray it never may be true | B |
| That a universal chilling | A |
| Should ensue | B |
| Of the sentiment of loving | A |
| If they made a great undoing | A |
| Of the plan of turtle doving | A |
| Then farewell all poet lore | C |
| Evermore | C |
| If there were no more of billing | A |
| There would be no more of cooing | A |
| And we all should be but owls | D |
| Lonely fowls | D |
| Blinking wonderfully wise | D |
| With our great round eyes | D |
| Sitting singly in the gloaming and no longer two and two | B |
| As unwilling to be wedded as unpracticed how to woo | B |
| With regard to being mated | E |
| Asking still with aggravated | F |
| Ungrammatical acerbity 'To who To who ' | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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