Judas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHFF DDFFII| By the just vengeance of incensed skies | A |
| Poor Bishop Judas late repenting dies | A |
| The Jews engaged him with a paltry bribe | B |
| Amounting hardly to a crown a tribe | B |
| Which though his conscience forced him to restore | C |
| And parsons tell us no man can do more | C |
| Yet through despair of God and man accurst | D |
| He lost his bishopric and hang'd or burst | D |
| Those former ages differ'd much from this | E |
| Judas betray'd his master with a kiss | E |
| But some have kiss'd the gospel fifty times | F |
| Whose perjury's the least of all their crimes | F |
| Some who can perjure through a two inch board | D |
| Yet keep their bishoprics and 'scape the cord | D |
| Like hemp which by a skilful spinster drawn | G |
| To slender threads may sometimes pass for lawn | G |
| As ancient Judas by transgression fell | H |
| And burst asunder ere he went to hell | H |
| So could we see a set of new Iscariots | F |
| Come headlong tumbling from their mitred chariots | F |
| Each modern Judas perish like the first | D |
| Drop from the tree with all his bowels burst | D |
| Who could forbear that view'd each guilty face | F |
| To cry Lo Judas gone to his own place | F |
| His habitation let all men forsake | I |
| And let his bishopric another take | I |
Jonathan Swift
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