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The Gates Ajar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KAKL MNON IPI QRQR SL

The Day of Judgment spread its glareA
O'er continents and seasB
The graves cracked open everywhereA
Like pods of early peasB
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Up to the Court of Heaven spedC
The souls of all mankindD
Republicans were at the headC
And Democrats behindD
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Reub Lloyd was there before the tubeE
Of Gabriel could callF
The dead in Christ rise first and ReubE
Had risen first of allF
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He sat beside the Throne of FlameG
As to the trumpet's soundH
Four statesmen of the Party CameG
And ranged themselves aroundH
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Pure spirits shining like the sunI
From taint and blemish freeJ
Great William Stow was there for oneI
And George A Knight for threeJ
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Souls less indubitably whiteK
Approached with anxious airA
Judge Blake at head of them by rightK
Of having been a MayorL
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His ermine he had donned againM
Long laid away in gumsN
'Twas soiled a trifle by the stainsO
Of politicians' thumbsN
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Then Knight addressed the Judge of HeavenI
'Your Honor would it trenchP
On custom here if Blake were givenI
A seat upon the Bench '-
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'Twas done 'Tom Shannon ' Peter criedQ
He came without adoR
In forma pauperis was triedQ
And was acquitted tooR
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Stow rose remarking 'I concur '-
Lloyd added 'That suits usS
I move Tom's nomination sirL
Be made unanimous '-

Ambrose Bierce



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