Revenge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JCK LML NOP| A spitcat sate on a garden gate | A |
| And a snapdog fared beneath | B |
| Careless and free was his mien and he | C |
| Held a fiddle string in his teeth | B |
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| She marked his march she wrought an arch | D |
| Of her back and blew up her tail | E |
| And her eyes were green as ever were seen | F |
| And she uttered a woful wail | E |
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| The spitcat's plaint was as follows 'It ain't | G |
| That I am to music a foe | H |
| For fiddle strings bide in my own inside | I |
| And I twang them soft and low | H |
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| 'But that dog has trifled with art and rifled | J |
| A kitten of mine ah me | C |
| That catgut slim was marauded from him | K |
| 'Tis the string that men call E ' | - |
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| Then she sounded high in the key of Y | - |
| A note that cracked the tombs | L |
| And the missiles through the firmament flew | M |
| From adjacent sleeping rooms | L |
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| As her gruesome yell from the gate post fell | N |
| She followed it down to earth | O |
| And that snapdog wears a placard that bears | P |
| The inscription 'Blind from birth ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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