Carmelite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDAEFDDF GGHIIH JJAKKA LLLMM MNOOPPN AAQQRRASSTT| As Death was a riding out one day | A |
| Across Mount Carmel he took his way | A |
| Where he met a mendicant monk | B |
| Some three or four quarters drunk | B |
| With a holy leer and a pious grin | C |
| Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin | C |
| Who held out his hands and cried | D |
| 'Give give in Charity's name I pray | A |
| Give in the name of the Church O give | E |
| Give that her holy sons may live ' | F |
| And Death replied | D |
| Smiling long and wide | D |
| 'I'll give holy father I'll give thee a ride ' | F |
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| With a rattle and bang | G |
| Of his bones he sprang | G |
| From his famous Pale Horse with his spear | H |
| By the neck and the foot | I |
| Seized the fellow and put | I |
| Him astride with his face to the rear | H |
| - | |
| The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell | J |
| Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell | J |
| 'Ho ho A beggar on horseback they say | A |
| Will ride to the devil ' and thump | K |
| Fell the flat of his dart on the rump | K |
| Of the charger which galloped away | A |
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| Faster and faster and faster it flew | L |
| Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew | L |
| By the road were dim and blended and blue | L |
| To the wild wide eyes | M |
| Of the rider in size | M |
| - | |
| Resembling a couple of blackberry pies | M |
| Death laughed again as a tomb might laugh | N |
| At a burial service spoiled | O |
| And the mourners' intentions foiled | O |
| By the body erecting | P |
| Its head and objecting | P |
| To further proceedings in its behalf | N |
| - | |
| Many a year and many a day | A |
| Have passed since these events away | A |
| The monk has long been a dusty corse | Q |
| And Death has never recovered his horse | Q |
| For the friar got hold of its tail | R |
| And steered it within the pale | R |
| Of the monastery gray | A |
| Where the beast was stabled and fed | S |
| With barley oil and bread | S |
| Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar | T |
| And so in due course was appointed Prior | T |
Ambrose Bierce
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