Over The Border Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DBEB FGFG HHIH GBGB JKJK| O justice you have fled to dwell | A |
| In Mexico unstrangled | B |
| Lest you should hang as high as well | A |
| As Haman dangled | B |
| - | |
| I know not if his cord he twanged | B |
| Or the King proved forgiving | C |
| 'Tis hard to think of Haman hanged | B |
| And Haymond living | C |
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| Yes as I said in mortal fear | D |
| To Mexico you journeyed | B |
| For you were on your trial here | E |
| And ill attorneyed | B |
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| The Law had long regarded you | F |
| As an extreme offender | G |
| Religion looked upon you too | F |
| With thoughts untender | G |
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| The Press to you was cold as snow | H |
| For sin you'd always call so | H |
| In Politics you were de trop | I |
| In Morals also | H |
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| All this is accurately true | G |
| And faith there might be more said | B |
| But well to save your thrapple you | G |
| Fled as aforesaid | B |
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| You're down in Mexico that's plain | J |
| As that the sun is risen | K |
| For Daniel Burns down there his chain | J |
| Drags round in prison | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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