Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DD EEE FFF GGG GGG DThe friends who stood about my bed | A |
Looked down upon my face and said | A |
'God's will be done the fellow's dead ' | B |
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When from my body I was free | C |
I straightway felt myself ah me | C |
Sink downward to the life to be | C |
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Full twenty centuries I fell | D |
And then alighted 'Here you dwell | D |
For aye ' a Voice cried 'this is Hell ' | - |
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A landscape lay about my feet | E |
Where trees were green and flowers sweet | E |
The climate was devoid of heat | E |
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The sun looked down with gentle beam | F |
Upon the bosom of the stream | F |
Nor saw I any sign of steam | F |
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The waters by the sky were tinged | G |
The hills with light and color fringed | G |
Birds warbled on the wing unsinged | G |
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'Ah no this is not Hell ' I cried | G |
'The preachers ne'er so greatly lied | G |
This is Earth's spirit glorified | G |
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'Good souls do not in Hades dwell | D |
And look there's John P Irish ' 'Well ' | - |
The Voice said 'that's what makes it Hell ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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