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 glare | A |
| O'er continents and seas | B |
| The graves cracked open everywhere | A |
| Like pods of early peas | B |
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| Up to the Court of Heaven sped | C |
| The souls of all mankind | D |
| Republicans were at the head | C |
| And Democrats behind | D |
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| Reub Lloyd was there before the tube | E |
| Of Gabriel could call | F |
| The dead in Christ rise first and Reub | E |
| Had risen first of all | F |
| - | |
| He sat beside the Throne of Flame | G |
| As to the trumpet's sound | H |
| Four statesmen of the Party Came | G |
| And ranged themselves around | H |
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| Pure spirits shining like the sun | I |
| From taint and blemish free | J |
| Great William Stow was there for one | I |
| And George A Knight for three | J |
| - | |
| Souls less indubitably white | K |
| Approached with anxious air | A |
| Judge Blake at head of them by right | K |
| Of having been a Mayor | L |
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| His ermine he had donned again | M |
| Long laid away in gums | N |
| 'Twas soiled a trifle by the stains | O |
| Of politicians' thumbs | N |
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| Then Knight addressed the Judge of Heaven | I |
| 'Your Honor would it trench | P |
| On custom here if Blake were given | I |
| A seat upon the Bench ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Twas done 'Tom Shannon ' Peter cried | Q |
| He came without ado | R |
| In forma pauperis was tried | Q |
| And was acquitted too | R |
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| Stow rose remarking 'I concur ' | - |
| Lloyd added 'That suits us | S |
| I move Tom's nomination sir | L |
| Be made unanimous ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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