St Peter's Denial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CADE AFFG HAAH IJKL MNNA OPPO QRRQ| What then has God to say of cursing heresies | A |
| Which rise up like a flood at precious angels' feet | B |
| A self indulgent tyrant stuffed with wine and meat | B |
| He sleeps to soothing sounds of monstrous blasphemies | A |
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| The sobs of martyred saints and groans of tortured men | C |
| No doubt provide the Lord with rapturous symphonies | A |
| And yet the heavenly hosts are scarcely even pleased | D |
| In spite of all the blood men dedicate to them | E |
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| Jesus do you recall the grove of olive trees | A |
| Where on your knees in your simplicity you prayed | F |
| To Him who sat and heard the noise the nailing made | F |
| In your live flesh as villains did their awful deed | G |
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| When you saw spitting on your pure divinity | H |
| Scum from the kitchens outcasts guardsmen in disgrace | A |
| And felt the crown of thorns around your gentle face | A |
| Piercing your temples home of our Humanity | H |
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| When like a target you were raised above the crowd | I |
| When the appalling wrench of broken body's weight | J |
| Stretched out your spreading arms and as your blood and sweat | K |
| Streamed down your body and across your pallid brow | L |
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| Did you remember all the days of brilliant calm | M |
| You went forth to fulfil the promise made by God | N |
| And on a gentle ass triumphantly you trod | N |
| The streets all strewn with blooms and branches of the palms | A |
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| When with your heart so full of hope and far from fear | O |
| You lashed with all your might that money changing lot | P |
| And were at last the master and then did not | P |
| Chagrin strike through your side more keenly than the spear | O |
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| Believe it as for me I'll go out satisfied | Q |
| From this world where the deed and dream do not accord | R |
| Would I might wield the sword and perish by the sword | R |
| Peter rejected Jesus he was justified | Q |
Charles Baudelaire
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