Duello Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHAHA IJIJ EKEK LALAIEIE| A Frenchman and an Englishman | A |
| Resolved to fight a duel | B |
| And hit upon a savage plan | C |
| Because their hate was cruel | B |
| They each would fire a single shot | D |
| In room of darkness pitchy | E |
| And who was killed and who was not | D |
| Would hang on fingers twitchy | E |
| - | |
| The room was bare and dark as death | F |
| And each ferocious fighter | G |
| Could hear his fierce opponent's breath | F |
| And clutched his pistol tighter | G |
| The Gaston fired the bullet hissed | H |
| On its destructive mission | A |
| Thank God said John Bull He has missed | H |
| The Frenchman cried Perdition | A |
| - | |
| Then silence followed like a spell | I |
| And as the Briton sought to | J |
| Reply he wondered where the hell | I |
| His Gallic foe had got to | J |
| - | |
| And then he thought I'll mercy show | E |
| Since Hades is a dire place | K |
| To send a fellow to and so | E |
| I'll blase up through the fireplace | K |
| - | |
| So up the chimney he let fly | L |
| Of grace a gallant henchman | A |
| When lo a sudden cry | L |
| And down there crashed the Frenchman | A |
| But if this yard in France you tell | I |
| Although its vein be skittish | E |
| I think it might be just as well | I |
| To make your Frenchman British | E |
Robert William Service
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