St.gregory's Guest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGH IJIK L LM NON PQPQ RSR TUT AVAV WXYX ZA2ZA2 B2C2B2C2| A TALE for Roman guides to tell | A |
| To careless sight worn travellers still | B |
| Who pause beside the narrow cell | A |
| Of Gregory on the Caelian Hill | B |
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| One day before the monk's door came | C |
| A beggar stretching empty palms | D |
| Fainting and fast sick in the name | C |
| Of the Most Holy asking alms | E |
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| And the monk answered 'All I have | F |
| In this poor cell of mine I give | G |
| The silver cup my mother gave | H |
| In Christ's name take thou it and live ' | - |
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| Years passed and called at last to bear | I |
| The pastoral crook and keys of Rome | J |
| The poor monk in Saint Peter's chair | I |
| Sat the crowned lord of Christendom | K |
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| 'Prepare a feast ' Saint Gregory cried | L |
| 'And let twelve beggars sit thereat ' | - |
| The beggars came and one beside | L |
| An unknown stranger with them sat | M |
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| 'I asked thee not ' the Pontiff spake | N |
| 'O stranger but if need be thine | O |
| I bid thee welcome for the sake | N |
| Of Him who is thy Lord and mine ' | - |
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| A grave calm face the stranger raised | P |
| Like His who on Gennesaret trod | Q |
| Or His on whom the Chaldeans gazed | P |
| Whose form was as the Son of God | Q |
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| 'Know'st thou ' he said 'thy gift of old ' | - |
| And in the hand he lifted up | R |
| The Pontiff marvelled to behold | S |
| Once more his mother's silver cup | R |
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| 'Thy prayers and alms have risen and bloom | T |
| Sweetly among the flowers of heaven | U |
| I am The Wonderful through whom | T |
| Whate'er thou askest shall be given ' | - |
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| He spake and vanished Gregory fell | A |
| With his twelve guests in mute accord | V |
| Prone on their faces knowing well | A |
| Their eyes of flesh had seen the Lord | V |
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| The old time legend is not vain | W |
| Nor vain thy art Verona's Paul | X |
| Telling it o'er and o'er again | Y |
| On gray Vicenza's frescoed wall | X |
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| Still wheresoever pity shares | Z |
| Its bread with sorrow want and sin | A2 |
| And love the beggar's feast prepares | Z |
| The uninvited Guest comes in | A2 |
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| Unheard because our ears are dull | B2 |
| Unseen because our eyes are dim | C2 |
| He walks our earth The Wonderful | B2 |
| And all good deeds are done to Him | C2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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