The Pelagian Drinking Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCB DDEFFEGGE BHBHIJAJ KLKLGGL MNONPAPA QQRSSRGGR| Pelagius lived at Kardanoel | A |
| And taught a doctrine there | B |
| How whether you went to heaven or to hell | A |
| It was your own affair | B |
| It had nothing to do with the Church my boy | C |
| But was your own affair | B |
| - | |
| No he didn't believe | D |
| In Adam and Eve | D |
| He put no faith therein | E |
| His doubts began | F |
| With the Fall of Man | F |
| And he laughed at Original Sin | E |
| With my row ti tow | G |
| Ti oodly ow | G |
| He laughed at original sin | E |
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| Then came the bishop of old Auxerre | B |
| Germanus was his name | H |
| He tore great handfuls out of his hair | B |
| And he called Pelagius shame | H |
| And with his stout Episcopal staff | I |
| So thoroughly whacked and banged | J |
| The heretics all both short and tall | A |
| They rather had been hanged | J |
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| Oh he whacked them hard and he banged them long | K |
| Upon each and all occasions | L |
| Till they bellowed in chorus loud and strong | K |
| Their orthodox persuasions | L |
| With my row ti tow | G |
| Ti oodly ow | G |
| Their orthodox persuasions | L |
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| Now the faith is old and the Devil bold | M |
| Exceedingly bold indeed | N |
| And the masses of doubt that are floating about | O |
| Would smother a mortal creed | N |
| But we that sit in a sturdy youth | P |
| And still can drink strong ale | A |
| Let us put it away to infallible truth | P |
| That always shall prevail | A |
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| And thank the Lord | Q |
| For the temporal sword | Q |
| And howling heretics too | R |
| And all good things | S |
| Our Christendom brings | S |
| But especially barley brew | R |
| With my row ti tow | G |
| Ti oodly ow | G |
| Especially barley brew | R |
Hilaire Belloc
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