The Priest And The Minister Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGHIAAAI JJJKLMMK DDDNOOON DDDPQQQP DDDRSSSR HHHTHHHT| From Old France once sailed a vessel | A |
| Bearing hearts that came to nestle | A |
| In Acadia's breast and wrestle | A |
| With its Winters cold | B |
| Priests and ministers it bore | C |
| Who had sought that desert shore | C |
| Filled with ardor to restore | C |
| Lost sheep to the fold | B |
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| Yet though on such errand wending | D |
| They debated without ending | D |
| Each his cherished faith defending | D |
| Morning noon and night | E |
| Never on the balmy air | F |
| Heavenward rose united prayer | F |
| Stout Champlain was in despair | F |
| At the godless sight | E |
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| Late and early they debated | G |
| Never ceasing never sated | G |
| Till the very sailors hated | H |
| Them and their debates | I |
| Not at dinner were they able | A |
| Even to forego their Babel | A |
| But disputing smote the table | A |
| Till they jarred the plates | I |
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| Tossed about by the gigantic | J |
| Billows of the wild Atlantic | J |
| Still they argued until frantic | J |
| With religious zeal | K |
| Tonsured priests and Huguenots | L |
| From discussions came to blows | M |
| Sieur de Monts had no repose | M |
| From their fierce appeal | K |
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| Oft the minister came crying | D |
| How while he had been replying | D |
| To the cure and denying | D |
| Something he had said | N |
| That the latter fell on him | O |
| And with more than priestly vim | O |
| Beat him body head and limb | O |
| Beat him till he fled | N |
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| Days passed by and then one morning | D |
| While the sunbeams were adorning | D |
| Sea and sky the lookout's warning | D |
| Echoed from the mast | P |
| And before the close of day | Q |
| Safe the little vessel lay | Q |
| Anchored in a sheltered bay | Q |
| Land was reached at last | P |
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| But within their cabins lying | D |
| Priest and Minister were dying | D |
| To their future haven nighing | D |
| Ere the dawn they died | R |
| And within the forest shade | S |
| Soon a narrow grave was made | S |
| Where the two were gently laid | S |
| Sleeping side by side | R |
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| That same evening as they rested | H |
| Round the fire the sailors jested | H |
| Of the dead how they contested | H |
| All across the sea | T |
| And a sailor laughing said | H |
| Let us hope the reverend dead | H |
| Yonder in their narrow bed | H |
| Manage to agree | T |
Arthur Weir
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