From Virginia To Paris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEE FFGGBBBBHHII| The polecat sovereign of its native wood | A |
| Dashes damnation upon bad and good | A |
| The health of all the upas trees impairs | B |
| By exhalations deadlier than theirs | B |
| Poisons the rattlesnake and warts the toad | C |
| The creeks go rotten and the rocks corrode | C |
| She shakes o'er breathless hill and shrinking dale | D |
| The horrid aspergillus of her tail | D |
| From every saturated hair till dry | E |
| The spargent fragrances divergent fly | E |
| Deafen the earth and scream along the sky | E |
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| Removed to alien scenes amid the strife | F |
| Of urban odors to ungladden life | F |
| Where gas and sewers and dead dogs conspire | G |
| The flesh to torture and the soul to fire | G |
| Where all the 'well defined and several stinks' | B |
| Known to mankind hold revel and high jinks | B |
| Humbled in spirit smitten with a sense | B |
| Of lost distinction leveled eminence | B |
| She suddenly resigns her baleful trust | H |
| Nor ever lays again our mortal dust | H |
| Her powers atrophied her vigor sunk | I |
| She lives deodorized a sweeter skunk | I |
Ambrose Bierce
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