An Unmerry Christmas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFAA GGHHHHHHIIHHH HHJJKKHH LLHHMM NNHHOOHHHHPPP| Christmas you tell me comes but once a year | A |
| One place it never comes and that is here | B |
| Here in these pages no good wishes spring | C |
| No well worn greetings tediously ring | C |
| For Christmas greetings are like pots of ore | D |
| The hollower they are they ring the more | D |
| Here shall no holly cast a spiny shade | E |
| Nor mistletoe my solitude invade | E |
| No trinket laden vegetable come | F |
| No jorum steam with Sheolate of rum | F |
| No shrilling children shall their voices rear | A |
| Hurrah for Christmas without Christmas cheer | A |
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| No presents if you please I know too well | G |
| What Herbert Spencer if he didn't tell | G |
| I know not if he did yet might have told | H |
| Of present giving in the days of old | H |
| When Early Man with gifts propitiated | H |
| The chiefs whom most he doubted feared and hated | H |
| Or tendered them in hope to reap some rude | H |
| Advantage from the taker's gratitude | H |
| Since thus the Gift its origin derives | I |
| How much of its first character survives | I |
| You know as well as I my stocking's tied | H |
| My pocket buttoned with my soul inside | H |
| I save my money and I save my pride | H |
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| Dinner Yes thank you just a human body | H |
| Done to a nutty brown and a tear toddy | H |
| To give me appetite and as for drink | J |
| About a half a jug of blood I think | J |
| Will do for still I love the red red wine | K |
| Coagulating well with wrinkles fine | K |
| Fretting the satin surface of its flood | H |
| O tope of kings divine Falernian blood | H |
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| Duse take the shouting fowls upon the limb | L |
| The kneeling cattle and the rising hymn | L |
| Has not a pagan rights to be regarded | H |
| His heart assaulted and his ear bombarded | H |
| With sentiments and sounds that good old Pan | M |
| Even in his demonium would ban | M |
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| No friends no Christmas here for I have sworn | N |
| To keep my heart hard and my knees unworn | N |
| Enough you have of jester player priest | H |
| I as the skeleton attend your feast | H |
| In the mad revelry to make a lull | O |
| With shaken finger and with bobbing skull | O |
| However you my services may flout | H |
| Philosophy disdain and reason doubt | H |
| I mean to hold in customary state | H |
| My dismal revelry and celebrate | H |
| My yearly rite until the crack o' doom | P |
| Ignore the cheerful season's warmth and bloom | P |
| And cultivate an oasis of gloom | P |
Ambrose Bierce
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