La Scala Santa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCCCBBCB BCCCDAAA AAEACCFG HBIBJACA JAJAAJAJ| Robusti sono i fatti | A |
| Discorso del Terremoto | A |
| del S Alessandro Sardo | A |
| Venetia A D | A |
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| In San Gianni Lateran | B |
| Dey've cot a flight of shdairs | C |
| More woonderful ash nefer vas | C |
| As Latin pooks declares | C |
| For you kits your sins forgifen | B |
| If you glimes dem knee py knee | B |
| It's such a gitten up a stairs | C |
| I nefer yet did see | B |
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| Now as Breitmann vas a vaitin | B |
| Among some demi reps | C |
| Ascensionem expectans | C |
| To see dem glime de steps | C |
| Dere came a sinful scoffer | D |
| Who his mind had firmly set | A |
| To go dem holy sdairs afoot | A |
| Und do it on a bet | A |
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| Boot shoost as he vas startet | A |
| To make dis sassy go | A |
| Der Breitmann caught him py de neck | E |
| Und tripped him off his toe | A |
| Und den dere come de skience | C |
| A la prenez gardez vous | C |
| For he bung his eye and bust his shell | F |
| Und shplit his noshe in dwo | G |
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| De briests vere so astonish | H |
| To see him lam de man | B |
| Dat dey shvore a holy miracle | I |
| Vas vork by Breitemann | B |
| Says Breitmann I'm a heretic | J |
| But dis you may pe bound | A |
| No chap shall mock relishious dings | C |
| Vhile I'm a bummin round | A |
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| Und you owes me really noding | J |
| For as I'll plainly show | A |
| At last I've found out someding | J |
| Vot I alfays vant to know | A |
| Und now dat I have found it | A |
| In de newspapers I'll brag | J |
| Evviva Ho trovato | A |
| Vot means a Scala Wag | J |
Charles G. Leland
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