An Obituarian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGF HIH JEJE KLKL MEME| Death poet Pickering sat at his desk | A |
| Wrapped in appropriate gloom | B |
| His posture was pensive and picturesque | C |
| Like a raven charming a tomb | B |
| - | |
| Enter a party a drinking the cup | D |
| Of sorrow and likewise of woe | E |
| 'Some harrowing poetry Mister whack up | D |
| All wrote in the key of O | E |
| - | |
| 'For the angels has called my old woman hence | F |
| From the strife where she fit mighty free | G |
| It's a nickel a line Cond n the expense | F |
| For wealth is now little to me ' | - |
| - | |
| The Bard of Mortality looked him through | H |
| In the piercingest sort of a way | I |
| 'It is much to me though it's little to you | H |
| I've taken a wife to day ' | - |
| - | |
| So he twisted the tail of his mental cow | J |
| And made her give down her flow | E |
| The grief of that bard was long winded somehow | J |
| There was reams and reamses of woe | E |
| - | |
| The widower man which had buried his wife | K |
| Grew lily like round each gill | L |
| For she turned in her grave and came back to life | K |
| Then he cruel ignored the bill | L |
| - | |
| Then Sorrow she opened her gates a wide | M |
| As likewise did also Woe | E |
| And the death poet's song as is heard inside | M |
| Is sang in the key of O | E |
Ambrose Bierce
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