One And One Are Two Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHG IDID JJ KBK| The trumpet sounded and the dead | A |
| Came forth from earth and ocean | B |
| And Pickering arose and sped | A |
| Aloft with wobbling motion | B |
| - | |
| 'What makes him fly lop sided ' cried | C |
| A soul of the elected | D |
| 'One ear was wax ' a rogue replied | C |
| 'And isn't resurrected ' | - |
| - | |
| Below him on the pitted plain | E |
| By his abandoned hollow | F |
| His hair and teeth tried all in vain | E |
| The rest of him to follow | F |
| - | |
| Saint Peter seeing him ascend | G |
| Came forward to the wicket | H |
| And said 'My mutilated friend | G |
| I'll thank you for your ticket ' | - |
| - | |
| 'The Call ' said Pickering his hand | I |
| To reach the latch extended | D |
| Said Peter affable and bland | I |
| 'The free list is suspended | D |
| - | |
| 'What claim have you that's valid here ' | - |
| That ancient vilifier | J |
| Reflected then with look austere | J |
| Replied 'I am a liar ' | - |
| - | |
| Said Peter 'That is simple neat | K |
| And candid Anglo Saxon | B |
| But well come in and take a seat | K |
| Up there by Colonel Jackson ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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