The Death And Last Confession Of Wandering Peter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DGDG GGG HIH JKJK LML GDGK KKKK| When Peter Wanderwide was young | A |
| He wandered everywhere he would | B |
| All that he approved was sung | A |
| And most of what he saw was good | B |
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| When Peter Wanderwide was thrown | C |
| By Death himself beyond Auxerre | D |
| He chanted in heroic tone | C |
| To priests and people gathered there | D |
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| If all that I have loved and seen | E |
| Be with me on the Judgment Day | F |
| I shall be saved the crowd between | E |
| From Satan and his foul array | F |
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| Almighty God will surely cry | D |
| 'St Michael Who is this that stands | G |
| With Ireland in his dubious eye | D |
| And Perigord between his hands | G |
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| 'And on his arm the stirrup thongs | G |
| And in his gait the narrow seas | G |
| And in his mouth Burgundian songs | G |
| But in his heart the Pyrenees ' | - |
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| St Michael then will answer right | H |
| And not without angelic shame | I |
| 'I seem to know his face by sight | H |
| I cannot recollect his name ' | - |
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| St Peter will befriend me then | J |
| Because my name is Peter too | K |
| 'I know him for the best of men | J |
| That ever walloped barley brew | K |
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| 'And though I did not know him well | L |
| And though his soul were clogged with sin | M |
| I hold the keys of Heaven and Hell | L |
| Be welcome noble Peterkin ' | - |
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| Then shall I spread my native wings | G |
| And tread secure the heavenly floor | D |
| And tell the blessed doubtful things | G |
| Of Val d'Aran and Perigord | K |
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| This was the last and solemn jest | K |
| Of weary Peter Wanderwide | K |
| He spoke it with a failing zest | K |
| And having spoken it he died | K |
Hilaire Belloc
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