A Social Call Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CDCDEE FGFGCC CDCDHH IIIIJJ KIKILM| Well well old Father Christmas is it you | A |
| With your thick neck and thin pretense of virtue | A |
| Less redness in the nose nay even some blue | A |
| Would not I think particularly hurt you | A |
| When seen close to not mounted in your car | B |
| You look the drunkard and the pig you are | B |
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| No matter sit you down for I am not | C |
| In a gray study as you sometimes find me | D |
| Merry O no nor wish to be God wot | C |
| But there's another year of pain behind me | D |
| That's something to be thankful for the more | E |
| There are behind the fewer are before | E |
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| I know you Father Christmas for a scamp | F |
| But Heaven endowed me at my soul's creation | G |
| With an affinity to every tramp | F |
| That walks the world and steals its admiration | G |
| For admiration is like linen left | C |
| Upon the line got easiest by theft | C |
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| Good God old man just think of it I've stood | C |
| With brains and honesty some five and twenty | D |
| Long years as champion of all that's good | C |
| And taken on the mazzard thwacks a plenty | D |
| Yet now whose praises do the people bawl | H |
| Those of the fellows whom I live to maul | H |
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| Why this is odd the more I try to talk | I |
| Of you the more my tongue grows egotistic | I |
| To prattle of myself I'll try to balk | I |
| Its waywardness and be more altruistic | I |
| So let us speak of others how they sin | J |
| And what a devil of a state they 're in | J |
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| That's all I have to say Good bye old man | K |
| Next year you possibly may find me scolding | I |
| Or miss me altogether Nature's plan | K |
| Includes as I suppose a final folding | I |
| Of these poor empty hands Then dropp a tear | L |
| To think they'll never box another ear | M |
Ambrose Bierce
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