Ad Moodium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFH IAIA JEJE KLKL MNM ELEL| Tut Moody do not try to show | A |
| To gentlemen and ladies | B |
| That if they have not 'Faith ' they'll go | A |
| Headlong to Hades | B |
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| Faith is belief and how can I | C |
| Have that by being willing | D |
| This dime I cannot though I try | C |
| Believe a shilling | D |
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| Perhaps you can If so pray do | E |
| Believe you own it also | A |
| But what seems evidence to you | E |
| I may not call so | A |
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| Heaven knows I'd like the Faith to think | F |
| This little vessel's contents | G |
| Are liquid gold I see 'tis ink | F |
| For writing nonsense | H |
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| Minds prone to Faith however may | I |
| Come now and then to sorrow | A |
| They put their trust in truth to day | I |
| In lies to morrow | A |
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| No doubt the happiness is great | J |
| To think as one would wish to | E |
| But not to swallow every bait | J |
| As certain fish do | E |
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| To think a snake a cord I hope | K |
| Would bolden and delight me | L |
| But some day I might think a rope | K |
| Would chase and bite me | L |
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| 'Curst Reason Faith forever blest ' | - |
| You're crying all the season | M |
| Well who decides that Faith is best | N |
| Why Mr Reason | M |
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| He's right or wrong he answers you | E |
| According to your folly | L |
| And says what you have taught him to | E |
| Like any polly | L |
Ambrose Bierce
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