Tidings Of Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHGH IDID JEJE EEEE HKH ILIL EBE| Old Nick from his place of last resort | A |
| Came up and looked the world over | B |
| He saw how the grass of the good was short | A |
| And the wicked lived in clover | B |
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| And he gravely said 'This is all all wrong | C |
| And never by me intended | D |
| If to me the power should ever belong | C |
| I shall have this thing amended ' | - |
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| He looked so solemn and good and wise | E |
| As he made this observation | F |
| That the men who heard him believed their eyes | E |
| Instead of his reputation | F |
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| So they bruited the matter about and each | G |
| Reported the words as nearly | H |
| As memory served with additional speech | G |
| To bring out the meaning clearly | H |
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| The consequence was that none understood | I |
| And the wildest rumors started | D |
| Of something intended to help the good | I |
| And injure the evil hearted | D |
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| Then Robert Morrow was seen to smile | J |
| With a bright and lively joyance | E |
| 'A man ' said he 'that is free from guile | J |
| Will now be free from annoyance | E |
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| 'The Featherstones doubtless will now increase | E |
| And multiply like the rabbits | E |
| While jailers deputy sheriffs police | E |
| And writers will form good habits | E |
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| 'The widows more easily robbed will be | H |
| And no juror will ever heed 'em | K |
| But open his purse to my eloquent plea | H |
| For security gain or freedom ' | - |
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| When Benson heard of the luck of the good | I |
| He was eating his dinner he muttered | L |
| 'It cannot help me for 'tis understood | I |
| My bread is already buttered | L |
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| 'My plats of surveys are all false they say | E |
| But that cannot greatly matter | B |
| To me for I'll tell the jurors that they | E |
| May lick if they please my platter ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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