Corrected News Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBACDEE FFGAAFG| 'T was a maiden lady the newspapers say | A |
| Pious and prim and a bit gone gray | A |
| She slept like an angel holy and white | B |
| Till ten o' the clock in the shank o' the night | B |
| When men and other wild animals prey | A |
| And then she cried in the viewless gloom | C |
| 'There's a man in the room a man in the room ' | D |
| And this maiden lady they make it appear | E |
| Leapt out of the window five fathom sheer | E |
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| Alas that lying is such a sin | F |
| When newspaper men need bread and gin | F |
| And none can be had for less than a lie | G |
| For the maiden lady a bit gone gray | A |
| Saw the man in the room from across the way | A |
| And leapt not out of the window but in | F |
| Ten fathom sheer as I hope to die | G |
Ambrose Bierce
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