At The Eleventh Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFG BHBI JKJ ECE| As through the blue expanse he skims | A |
| On joyous wings the late | B |
| Frank Hutchings overtakes Miss Sims | A |
| Both bound for Heaven's high gate | B |
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| In life they loved and God knows why | C |
| A lover so should sue | A |
| He slew her on the gallows high | C |
| Died pious and they flew | A |
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| Her pinions were bedraggled soiled | D |
| And torn as by a gale | E |
| While his were bright all freshly oiled | D |
| The feathers of his tail | E |
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| Her visage too was stained and worn | F |
| And menacing and grim | G |
| His sweet and mild you would have sworn | F |
| That she had murdered him | G |
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| When they'd arrived before the gate | B |
| He said to her 'My dear | H |
| 'Tis hard once more to separate | B |
| But you can't enter here | I |
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| 'For you unluckily were sent | J |
| So quickly to the grave | K |
| You had no notice to repent | J |
| Nor time your soul to save ' | - |
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| ''Tis true ' said she 'and I should wail | E |
| In Hell even now but I | C |
| Have lingered round the county jail | E |
| To see a Christian die ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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