The Devil's Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF AAGG HIAI JKAK LAMA NOPQ AARR STAT UVWWV| From his brimstone bed at break of day | A |
| A walking the DEVIL is gone | B |
| To visit his little snug farm of the earth | C |
| And see how his stock went on | D |
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| Over the hill and over the dale | E |
| And he went over the plain | F |
| And backward and forward he swished his long tail | E |
| As a gentleman swishes his cane | F |
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| And how then was the Devil drest | A |
| Oh he was in his Sunday's best | A |
| His jacket was red and his breeches were blue | G |
| And there was a hole where the tail came through | G |
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| He saw a LAWYER killing a Viper | H |
| On a dung heap beside his stable | I |
| And the Devil smiled for it put him in mind | A |
| Of Cain and his brother Abel | I |
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| A POTHECARY on a white horse | J |
| Rode by on his vocations | K |
| And the Devil thought of his old Friend | A |
| DEATH in the Revelations | K |
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| He saw a cottage with a double coach house | L |
| A cottage of gentility | A |
| And the Devil did grin for his darling sin | M |
| Is pride that apes humility | A |
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| He went into a rich bookseller's shop | N |
| Quoth he we are both of one college | O |
| For I myself sate like a cormorant once | P |
| Fast by the tree of knowledge | Q |
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| Down the river there plied with wind and tide | A |
| A pig with vast celerity | A |
| And the Devil look'd wise as he saw how the while | R |
| It cut its own throat 'There ' quoth he with a smile | R |
| 'Goes 'England's commercial prosperity '' | - |
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| As he went through Cold Bath Fields he saw | S |
| A solitary cell | T |
| And the Devil was pleased for it gave him a hint | A |
| For improving his prisons in Hell | T |
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| General burning face | U |
| He saw with consternation | V |
| And back to hell his way did he take | W |
| For the Devil thought by a slight mistake | W |
| It was general conflagration | V |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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