A Social Call Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAABB CDCDEE FGFGCC CDCDHH IIIIJJ KIKILM

Well well old Father Christmas is it youA
With your thick neck and thin pretense of virtueA
Less redness in the nose nay even some blueA
Would not I think particularly hurt youA
When seen close to not mounted in your carB
You look the drunkard and the pig you areB
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No matter sit you down for I am notC
In a gray study as you sometimes find meD
Merry O no nor wish to be God wotC
But there's another year of pain behind meD
That's something to be thankful for the moreE
There are behind the fewer are beforeE
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I know you Father Christmas for a scampF
But Heaven endowed me at my soul's creationG
With an affinity to every trampF
That walks the world and steals its admirationG
For admiration is like linen leftC
Upon the line got easiest by theftC
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Good God old man just think of it I've stoodC
With brains and honesty some five and twentyD
Long years as champion of all that's goodC
And taken on the mazzard thwacks a plentyD
Yet now whose praises do the people bawlH
Those of the fellows whom I live to maulH
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Why this is odd the more I try to talkI
Of you the more my tongue grows egotisticI
To prattle of myself I'll try to balkI
Its waywardness and be more altruisticI
So let us speak of others how they sinJ
And what a devil of a state they 're inJ
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That's all I have to say Good bye old manK
Next year you possibly may find me scoldingI
Or miss me altogether Nature's planK
Includes as I suppose a final foldingI
Of these poor empty hands Then dropp a tearL
To think they'll never box another earM

Ambrose Bierce



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