Stoneman In Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC A DDE EThe Seraphs came to Christ and said 'Behold | A |
The man presumptuous and overbold | A |
Who boasted that his mercy could excel | B |
Thine own is dead and on his way to Hell ' | C |
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Gravely the Saviour asked 'What did he do | A |
To make his impious assertion true ' | - |
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'He was a Governor releasing all | D |
The vilest felons ever held in thrall | D |
No other mortal since the dawn of time | E |
Has ever pardoned such a mass of crime ' | - |
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Christ smiled benignly on the Seraphim | E |
'Yet I am victor for I pardon him ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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