Parallels For The Pious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDCBEEEBFFFB| 'HE holds a pistol to my head | A |
| Swearing he will shoot me dead | A |
| If he have not my purse instead | A |
| The robber ' | B |
| 'He with the lash of wealth and power | C |
| Flogs out my heart and flings the dower | D |
| The sneering pittance of his hour | C |
| The robber ' | B |
| 'He shakes his serpent tongue that lies | E |
| Wins trust for poisoned sophistries | E |
| And stabs me in the dark and flies | E |
| The assassin ' | B |
| 'He pits me in the dreadful fight | F |
| Against my fellow Then he quite | F |
| Strips both his victims in the night | F |
| The assassin ' | B |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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