Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCC DD EEE FFF GGG GGG D| The 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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