The Yearly Lie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK JJ L JJJ| A merry Christmas Prudent as I live | A |
| You wish me something that you need not give | B |
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| Merry or sad what does it signify | C |
| To you 't is equal if I laugh or die | C |
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| Your hollow greeting like a parrot's jest | D |
| Finds all its meaning in the ear addressed | D |
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| Why 'merry' Christmas Faith I'd rather frown | E |
| Than grin and caper like a tickled clown | E |
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| When fools are merry the judicious weep | F |
| The wise are happy only when asleep | F |
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| A present Pray you give it to disarm | G |
| A man more powerful to do you harm | G |
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| 'T was not your motive Well I cannot let | H |
| You pay for favors that you'll never get | H |
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| Perish the savage custom of the gift | I |
| Founded in terror and maintained in thrift | I |
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| What men of honor need to aid their weal | J |
| They purchase or occasion serving steal | J |
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| Go celebrate the day with turkeys pies | K |
| Sermons and psalms and for the children lies | K |
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| Let Santa Claus descend again the flue | J |
| If Baby doubt it swear that it is true | J |
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| 'A lie well stuck to is as good as truth ' | - |
| And God's too old to legislate for youth | L |
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| Hail Christmas On my knees and fowl I fall | J |
| For greater grace and better gravy call | J |
| Vive l'Humbug that's to say God bless us all | J |
Ambrose Bierce
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