The Ballad Of Justifiable Homicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DEGE HFIF JKLK| They brought to me his mangled corpse | A |
| And I feared lest I should swing | B |
| O tell me tell me and make it brief | C |
| Why hast thou done this thing | B |
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| Had this man robbed the starving poor | D |
| Or lived a gunman's life | E |
| Had he set fire to cottages | F |
| Or run off with thy wife | E |
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| He hath not robbed the starving poor | D |
| Or lived a gunman's life | E |
| He hath set fire to no cottage | G |
| Nor run off with my wife | E |
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| Ye ask me such a question that | H |
| It now my lips unlocks | F |
| I learned he was the man who planned | I |
| The second balcony box | F |
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| The jury pondered never an hour | J |
| They thought not even a little | K |
| But handed in unanimously | L |
| A verdict of acquittal | K |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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