Don Pedrillo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DAEA FECG HIAJ KACD LAMN OCEF DPQN RSTD TOAA CDII CEIQ EUGQ EAUU UDUC CEPA DUDE UUUD QDMD DQEF DDCM EMME AMGC FGUE QADD MACA AAVU UUQE

Not a lad in SaragossaA
Nobler featured haughtier temperedB
Than the Alcalde's youthful grandsonC
Donna Clara's boy PedrilloD
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Handsome as the Prince of EvilD
And devout as St IgnatiusA
Deft at fence unmatched with zitherE
Miniature of knightly virtuesA
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Truly an unfailing blessingF
To his pious widowed motherE
To the beautiful lone matronC
Who forswore the world to rear himG
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For her beauty hath but ripenedH
In such wise as the pomegranateI
Putteth by her crown of blossomsA
For her richer crown of fruitageJ
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Still her hand is claimed and courtedK
Still she spurns her proudest suitorsA
Doting on a phantom passionC
And upon her boy PedrilloD
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Like a saint lives Donna ClaraL
First at matins last at vespersA
Half her fortune she expendethM
Buying masses for the needyN
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Visiting the poor afflictedO
Infinite is her compassionC
Scorning not the Moorish beggarE
Nor the wretched Jew despisingF
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And a scandal to the faithfulD
E'en she hath been known to welcomeP
To her castle the young RabbiQ
Offering to his tribe her bountyN
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Rarely hath he crossed the thresholdR
Yet the thought that he hath crossed itS
Burns like poison in the marrowT
Of the zealous youth PedrilloD
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By the blessed Saint IagoT
He hath vowed immortal hatredO
To these circumcised intrudersA
Who pollute the soil of SpaniardsA
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Seated in his mother's gardenC
At high noon the boy PedrilloD
Playeth with his favorite parrotI
Golden green with streaks of scarletI
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Pretty Dodo speak thy lessonC
Coaxed Pedrillo thief and traitorE
Thief and traitor croaked the parrotI
Is the yellow skirted RabbiQ
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And the boy with peals of laughterE
Stroked his favorite's head of emeraldU
Raised his eyes and lo before himG
Stood the yellow skirted RabbiQ
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In his dark eyes gleamed no angerE
No hot flush o'erspread his featuresA
'Neath his beard his pale lips quiveredU
And a shadow crossed his foreheadU
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Very gentle was his aspectU
And his voice was mild and friendlyD
Evil words my son thou speakestU
Teaching to the fowls of heavenC
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In our Talmud it stands writtenC
Thrice curst is the tongue of slanderE
Poisoning also with its victimP
Him who speaks and him who listensA
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But no whit abashed PedrilloD
What care I for curse of TalmudU
'T is no slander to speak evilD
Of the murderers of our SaviourE
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To your beard I will repeat itU
That I only bide my manhoodU
To wreak all my lawful hatredU
On thyself and on thy peopleD
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Very gently spoke the RabbiQ
Have a care my son PedrilloD
Thou art orphaned and who knowethM
But thy father loved this peopleD
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Think you words like these will touch meD
Such I laugh to scorn sir RabbiQ
From high heaven my sainted fatherE
On my deeds will smile in blessingF
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Loyal knight was he and nobleD
And my mother oft assures meD
Ne'er she saw so pure a ChristianC
'T is from him my zeal derivethM
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What if he were such anotherE
As myself who stand before theeM
I should curse the hour that bore meM
I should die of shame and horrorE
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Harsher is thy creed than oursA
For had I a son as comelyM
As Pedrillo I would love himG
Love him were he thrice a ChristianC
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In his youth my youth renewingF
Pamper fondle die to serve himG
Only breathing through his spiritU
Couldst thou not love such a fatherE
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Faltering spoke the deep voiced RabbiQ
With white lips and twitching fingersA
Then in clear young steady trebleD
Answered him the boy PedrilloD
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At the thought my heart revoltethM
All your tribe offend my sensesA
They're an eyesore to my visionC
And a stench unto my nostrilsA
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When I meet these unbelieversA
With thick lips and eagle nosesA
Thus I scorn them thus revile themV
Thus I spit upon their garmentU
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And the haughty youth passed onwardU
Bearing on his wrist his parrotU
And the yellow skirted RabbiQ
With bowed head sought Donna ClaraE

Emma Lazarus



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