It Out-herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKLK KMKN OPOP QRQR SPTP| Tonight my children hunch | A |
| Toward their Western and are glad | B |
| As with a Sunday punch | A |
| The Good casts out the Bad | B |
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| And in their fairy tales | C |
| The warty giant and witch | D |
| Get sealed in doorless jails | C |
| And the match girl strikes it rich | D |
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| I ve made myself a drink | E |
| The giant and witch are set | F |
| To bust out of the clink | E |
| When my children have gone to bed | G |
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| All frequencies are loud | H |
| With signals of despair | I |
| In flash and morse they crowd | H |
| The rondure of the air | I |
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| For the wicked have grown strong | J |
| Their numbers mock at death | K |
| Their cow brings forth its young | L |
| Their bull engendereth | K |
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| Their very fund of strength | K |
| Satan bestrides the globe | M |
| He stalks its breadth and length | K |
| And finds out even Job | N |
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| Yet by quite other laws | O |
| My children make their case | P |
| Half God half Santa Claus | O |
| But with my voice and face | P |
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| A hero comes to save | Q |
| The poorman beggarman thief | R |
| And make the world behave | Q |
| And put an end to grief | R |
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| And that their sleep be sound | S |
| I say this childermas | P |
| Who could not at one time | T |
| Have saved them from the gas | P |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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