An Hour Later Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADDBEFFEGGHHIJJIK LKLMNONPPQQRRSTTS| Not since the time the sense of evil | A |
| Caught our first parents by surprise | B |
| While eating fruit in Paradise | C |
| One fateful morning had the Devil | A |
| Used as he was to steam and smoke | D |
| Beheld such chaos as now broke | D |
| Upon his horny bloodshot eyes | B |
| Prince of the Power of the air | E |
| Lord of terrestrial things as well | F |
| As subterranean life in Hell | F |
| He had till now not been aware | E |
| How this great watery domain | G |
| Might be enclosed within his reign | G |
| Such things as fish cold blooded wet | H |
| Had served no end of his as yet | H |
| The serpent could be made to lie | I |
| And hence fit agent to deceive | J |
| A trustful female such as Eve | J |
| But he though cold at least was dry | I |
| For all his wily strategy | K |
| Since time began the Devil saw | L |
| No way to circumvent the sea | K |
| The fish transgressed no moral law | L |
| They had no principles no creed | M |
| No prayers no Bibles and no Church | N |
| No Reason's holy light to read | O |
| The truth and no desire to search | N |
| Hence from Dame Nature's ancient way | P |
| Their fins had never learned to stray | P |
| They ate and drank and fought it's true | Q |
| And when the zest was on they slew | Q |
| But yet their most tempestuous quarrels | R |
| Were never prejudiced by morals | R |
| As Nature had at the beginning | S |
| Created them so they remained | T |
| Fish with cold blood no skill had trained | T |
| To the warm arts of human sinning | S |
E. J. Pratt
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