Something In The Papers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK| 'What's in the paper ' Oh it's dev'lish dull | A |
| There's nothing happening at all a lull | A |
| After the war storm Mr Someone's wife | B |
| Killed by her lover with I think a knife | B |
| A fire on Blank Street and some babies one | C |
| Two three or four I don't remember done | C |
| To quite a delicate and lovely brown | D |
| A husband shot by woman of the town | D |
| The same old story Shipwreck somewhere south | E |
| The crew all saved or lost Uncommon drouth | E |
| Makes hundreds homeless up the River Mud | F |
| Though come to think I guess it was a flood | F |
| 'T is feared some bank will burst or else it won't | G |
| They always burst I fancy or they don't | G |
| Who cares a cent the banker pays his coin | H |
| And takes his chances bullet in the groin | H |
| But that's another item suicide | I |
| Fool lost his money serve him right and died | I |
| Heigh ho there's noth Jerusalem what's this | J |
| Tom Jones has failed My God what an abyss | J |
| Of ruin owes me seven hundred clear | K |
| Was ever such a damned disastrous year | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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