Emancipation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGGH IIJJKL M NNOOP Q| Behold the days of miracle at last | A |
| Return if ever they were truly past | A |
| From sinful creditors' unholy greed | B |
| The church called Calvary at last is freed | B |
| So called for there the Savior's crucified | C |
| Roberts and Carmany on either side | C |
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| The circling contribution box no more | D |
| Provokes the nod and simulated snore | D |
| No more the Lottery no more the Fair | E |
| Lure the reluctant dollar from its lair | E |
| Nor Ladies' Lunches at a bit a bite | F |
| Destroy the health yet spare the appetite | F |
| While thrifty sisters o'er the cauldron stoop | G |
| To serve their God with zeal their friends with soup | G |
| And all the brethren mendicate the earth | H |
| With viewless placards 'We've been so from birth ' | - |
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| Sure of his wage the pastor now can lend | I |
| His whole attention to his latter end | I |
| Remarking with a martyr's prescient thrill | J |
| The Hemp maturing on the cheerless Hill | J |
| The holy brethren lifting pious palms | K |
| Pour out their gratitude in prayer and psalms | L |
| Chant De Profundis meaning 'out of debt ' | - |
| And dance like mad or would if they were let | M |
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| Deeply disguised a deacon newly dead | N |
| Supplied the means Jack Satan holds his head | N |
| As high as any and as loudly sings | O |
| His jubilate till each rafter rings | O |
| 'Rejoice ye ever faithful ' bellows he | P |
| 'The debt is lifted and the temple free ' | - |
| Then says aside with gentle cachination | Q |
| 'I've got a mortgage on the congregation ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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