The Night Of Election Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEF BBG| 'O venerable patriot I pray | A |
| Stand not here coatless at the break of day | A |
| We'll know the grand result and even now | B |
| The eastern sky is faintly touched with gray | A |
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| 'It ill befits thine age's hoary crown | C |
| This rude environment of rogue and clown | C |
| Who as the lying bulletins appear | D |
| With drunken cries incarnadine the town | C |
| - | |
| 'But if with noble zeal you stay to note | E |
| The outcome of your patriotic vote | E |
| For Blaine or Cleveland and your native land | F |
| Take and God bless you take my overcoat ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Done pard and mighty white of you And now | B |
| guess the country'll keep the trail somehow | B |
| I aint allowed to vote the Warden said | G |
| But whacked my coat up on old Stanislow ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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