The Wandering Jew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFC EEGECHIH JCECFCCC CKLKEME ECN OHKH CCCCPEKE KCECEKCK CPEPCQRQ SCQJECE CTCTEPCP CGCGUEEE EVEOCOEO VPCPOEKE EWXWOOCO KPEPXPFP EPEPP FEWhen as in faire Jerusalem | A |
Our Saviour Christ did live | B |
And for the sins of all the worlde | C |
His own deare life did give | D |
The wicked Jewes with scoffes and scornes | E |
Did dailye him molest | C |
That never till he left his life | F |
Our Saviour could not rest | C |
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When they had crown'd his head with thornes | E |
And scourg'd him to disgrace | E |
In scornfull sort they led him forthe | G |
Unto his dying place | E |
Where thousand thousands in the streete | C |
Beheld him passe along | H |
Yet not one gentle heart was there | I |
That pityed this his wrong | H |
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Both old and young reviled him | J |
As in the streete he wente | C |
And nought he found but churlish tauntes | E |
By every ones consente | C |
His owne deare cross he bore himselfe | F |
A burthen far too great | C |
Which made him in the streete to fainte | C |
With blood and water sweat | C |
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Being weary thus he sought for rest | C |
To ease his burdened soule | K |
Upon a stone the which a wretch | L |
Did churlishly controule | K |
And sayd 'Awaye thou King of Jewes | E |
Thou shalt not rest thee here | M |
Pass on thy execution place | E |
Thou seest nowe draweth neare ' | - |
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And thereupon he thrust him thence | E |
At which our Saviour sayd | C |
'I sure will rest but thou shalt walke | N |
And have no journey stayed ' | - |
With that this cursed shoemaker | O |
For offering Christ this wrong | H |
Left wife and children house and all | K |
And went from thence along | H |
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Where after he had seene the bloude | C |
Of Jesus Christ thus shed | C |
And to the crosse his bodye nail'd | C |
Away with speed he fled | C |
Without returning backe againe | P |
Unto his dwelling place | E |
And wandred up and downe the wordle | K |
A runnagate most base | E |
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No resting could he fidne at all | K |
No ease nor hearts content | C |
No house nor home nor biding place | E |
But wandring forth he went | C |
From towne to towne in foreigne landes | E |
With grieved conscience still | K |
Repenting for the heinous guilt | C |
Of his fore passed ill | K |
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Thus after some fewe ages past | C |
In wandring up and downe | P |
He much again desired to see | E |
Jerusalems renowne | P |
But finding it all quite destroyd | C |
He wandred thence with woe | Q |
Our Saviours wordes which he had spoke | R |
To verifie and showe | Q |
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'I'll rest ' sayd hee 'but thou shalt walke ' | - |
So doth this wandring Jew | S |
From place to place but cannot rest | C |
For seeing countries newe | Q |
Declaring still the power of him | J |
Whereas he comes or goes | E |
And of all things done in the east | C |
Since Christ his death he showes | E |
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The world he hath still compast round | C |
And seene those nations strange | T |
That hearing of the name of Christ | C |
Their idol gods doe change | T |
To whom he hath told wondrous thinges | E |
Of time forepast and gone | P |
And to the princes of the worlde | C |
Declares his cause of moane | P |
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Desiring still to be dissolv'd | C |
And yield his mortal breath | G |
But if the Lord hath thus decreed | C |
He shall not yet see death | G |
For neither lookes he old nor young | U |
But as he did those times | E |
When Christ did suffer on the crosse | E |
For mortall sinners crimes | E |
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He hath past through many a foreigne place | E |
Arabia Egypt Africa | V |
Grecia Syria and great Thrace | E |
And throughout all Hungaria | O |
Where Paul and Peter preached Christ | C |
Those blest apostles deare | O |
There he hath told our Saviours wordes | E |
In countries far and neare | O |
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And lately in Bohemia | V |
With many a German towne | P |
And now in Flanders as tis thought | C |
He wandreth up and downe | P |
Where learned men with him conferre | O |
Of those his lingering dayes | E |
And wonder much to heare him tell | K |
His journeyes and his wayes | E |
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If people give this Jew an almes | E |
The most that he will take | W |
Is not above a groat a time | X |
Which he for Jesus' sake | W |
Will kindlye give unto the poore | O |
And thereof make no spare | O |
Affirming still that Jesus Christ | C |
Of him hath dailye care | O |
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He ne'er was seene to laugh nor smile | K |
But weepe and make great moane | P |
Lamenting still his miseries | E |
And dayes forepast and gone | P |
If he heare any one blaspheme | X |
Or take God's name in vaine | P |
He tells them that they crucifie | F |
Their Saviour Christe againe | P |
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'If you had seene his death ' saith he | E |
'As these mine eyes have done | P |
Ten thousand thousand times would yee | E |
His torments think upon | P |
And suffer for his sake all paine | P |
Of torments and all woes ' | - |
These are his wordes and eke his life | F |
Whereas he comes or goes | E |
Anonymous Olde English
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