The Wandering Pilgrim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC CCCC DEFE GCGC CEHE CCCC IDID JCJC CKCK LCMC NCNC KOKC CPCP| Will Piggot must to Coxwould go | A |
| To live alas in want | B |
| Unless Sir Thomas say No no | A |
| Th' allowance is too scant | C |
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| The gracious knight full well does weet | C |
| Ten farthings ne'er will do | C |
| To keep a man each day in meat | C |
| Some bread to meat is due | C |
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| A Rechabite poor Will must live | D |
| And drink of Adam's ale | E |
| Pure element no life can give | F |
| Or mortal soul regale | E |
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| Spare diet and spring water clear | G |
| Physicians hold are good | C |
| Who diets thus need never fear | G |
| A fever in the blood | C |
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| Gramercy Sirs ye're in the right | C |
| Prescriptions all can sell | E |
| But he that does not eat can't sh | H |
| Or piss if good drink fail | E |
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| But pass The AEsculapian crew | C |
| Who eat and quaff the best | C |
| They seldom miss to bake and brew | C |
| Or lin to break their fast | C |
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| Could Yorkshire tyke but do the same | I |
| Then he like them might thrive | D |
| But Fortune Fortune cruel Dame | I |
| To starve thou dost him drive | D |
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| In Will's old master's plenteous days | J |
| His memory e'er be bless'd | C |
| What need of speaking in his praise | J |
| His goodness stands confess'd | C |
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| At his famed gate stood Charity | C |
| In lovely sweet array | K |
| Ceres and Hospitality | C |
| Dwelt there both night and day | K |
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| But to conclude and be concise | L |
| Truth must Will's voucher be | C |
| Truth never yet went in disguise | M |
| For naked still is she | C |
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| There is but one but one alone | N |
| Can set the pilgrim free | C |
| And make him cease to pine and moan | N |
| O Frankland it is thee | C |
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| Oh save him from a dreary way | K |
| To Coxwould he must hie | O |
| Bereft of thee he wends astray | K |
| At Coxwould he must die | C |
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| Oh let him in thy hall but stand | C |
| And wear a porter's gown | P |
| Duteous to what thou may'st command | C |
| Thus William's wishes crown | P |
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