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Peter Bell The Third Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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BY MICHING MALLECHO Esq	A
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Is it a party in a parlour	B
Crammed just as they on earth were crammed	C
Some sipping punch some sipping tea	D
But as you by their faces see	D
All silent and all damned	C
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Peter Bell by W Wordsworth	E
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Ophelia What means this my lord	F
Hamlet Marry this is Miching Mallecho it means mischief	G
Shakespeare	H
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PROLOGUE	A
Pet er Bells one two and three	D
O'er the wide world wandering be	D
First the antenatal Peter	B
Wrapped in weeds of the same metre	B
The so long predestined raiment	F
Clothed in which to walk his way meant	F
The second Peter whose ambition	I
Is to link the proposition	I
As the mean of two extremes	J
This was learned from Aldric's themes	J
Shielding from the guilt of schism	K
The orthodoxal syllogism	K
The First Peter he who was	L
Like the shadow in the glass	M
Of the second yet unripe	N
His substantial antitype	N
Then came Peter Bell the Second	F
Who henceforward must be reckoned	F
The body of a double soul	O
And that portion of the whole	O
Without which the rest would seem	K
Ends of a disjointed dream	K
And the Third is he who has	P
O'er the grave been forced to pass	M
To the other side which is	Q
Go and try else just like this	R
Peter Bell the First was Peter	B
Smugger milder softer neater	B
Like the soul before it is	Q
Born from that world into this	R
The next Peter Bell was he	D
Predevote like you and me	D
To good or evil as may come	K
His was the severer doom	K
For he was an evil Cotter	B
And a polygamic Potter	B
And the last is Peter Bell	S
Damned since our first parents fell	S
Damned eternally to Hell	S
Surely he deserves it well	S
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PART THE FIRST	F
DEATH	T
And Peter Bell when he had been	U
With fresh imported Hell fire warmed	F
Grew serious from his dress and mien	V
'Twas very plainly to be seen	V
Peter was quite reformed	F
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His eyes turned up his mouth turned down	W
His accent caught a nasal twang	A
He oiled his hair there might be heard	F
The grace of God in every word	F
Which Peter said or sang	A
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But Peter now grew old and had	F
An ill no doctor could unravel	X
His torments almost drove him mad	F
Some said it was a fever bad	F
Some swore it was the gravel	X
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His holy friends then came about	F
And with long preaching and persuasion	I
Convinced the patient that without	F
The smallest shadow of a doubt	F
He was predestined to damnation	I
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They said 'Thy name is Peter Bell	S
Thy skin is of a brimstone hue	Y
Alive or dead ay sick or well	S
The one God made to rhyme with hell	S
The other I think rhymes with you '	-
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Then Peter set up such a yell	S
The nurse who with some water gruel	Z
Was climbing up the stairs as well	S
As her old legs could climb them fell	S
And broke them both the fall was cruel	X
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The Parson from the casement lept	F
Into the lake of Windermere	B
And many an eel though no adept	F
In God's right reason for it kept	F
Gnawing his kidneys half a year	B
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And all the rest rushed through the door	B
And tumbled over one another	B
And broke their skulls Upon the floor	B
Meanwhile sat Peter Bell and swore	B
And cursed his father and his mother	B
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And raved of God and sin and death	T
Blaspheming like an infidel	S
And said that with his clench d teeth	A2
He'd seize the earth from underneath	A2
And drag it with him down to hell	S
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As he was speaking came a spasm	K
And wrenched his gnashing teeth asunder	B
Like one who sees a strange phantasm	K
He lay there was a silent chasm	K
Between his upper jaw and under	B
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And yellow death lay on his face	B2
And a fixed smile that was not human	I
Told as I understand the case	B2
That he was gone to the wrong place	B2
I heard all this from the old woman	I
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Then there came down from Langdale Pike	A
A cloud with lightning wind and hail	C2
It swept over the mountains like	A
An ocean and I heard it strike	A
The woods and crags of Grasmere vale	C2
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And I saw the black storm come	K
Nearer minute after minute	F
Its thunder made the cataracts dumb	K
With hiss and clash and hollow hum	K
It neared as if the Devil was in it	F
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The Devil was in it he had bought	F
Peter for half a crown and when	D2
The storm which bore him vanished nought	F
That in the house that storm had caught	F
Was ever seen again	D2
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The gaping neighbours came next day	F
They found all vanished from the shore	B
The Bible whence he used to pray	F
Half scorched under a hen coop lay	F
Smashed glass and nothing more	B
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PART THE SECOND	F
THE DEVIL	X
The Devil I safely can aver	B
Has neither hoof nor tail nor sting	A
Nor is he as some sages swear	B
A spirit neither here nor there	B
In nothing yet in everything	A
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He is what we are for sometimes	E2
The Devil is a gentleman	I
At others a bard bartering rhymes	E2
For sack a statesman spinning crimes	E2
A swindler living as he can	F2
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A thief who cometh in the night	F
With whole boots and net pantaloons	G2
Like some one whom it were not right	F
To mention or the luckless wight	F
From whom he steals nine silver spoons	G2
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But in this case he did appear	B
Like a slop merchant from Wapping	A
And with smug face and eye severe	B
On every side did perk and peer	B
Till he saw Peter dead or napping	A
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He had on an upper Benjamin	I
For he was of the driving schism	K
In the which he wrapped his skin	U
From the storm he travelled in	U
For fear of rheumatism	K
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He called the ghost out of the corse	H2
It was exceedingly like Peter	B
Only its voice was hollow and hoarse	H2
It had a queerish look of course	H2
Its dress too was a little neater	B
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The Devil knew not his name and lot	F
Peter knew not that he was Bell	S
Each had an upper stream of thought	F
Which made all seem as it was not	F
Fitting itself to all things well	S
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Peter thought he had parents dear	B
Brothers sisters cousins cronies	I2
In the fens of Lincolnshire	B
He perhaps had found them there	B
Had he gone and boldly shown his	Q
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Solemn phiz in his own village	J2
Where he thought oft when a boy	K2
He'd clomb the orchard walls to pillage	L2
The produce of his neighbour's tillage	L2
With marvellous pride and joy	L2
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And the Devil thought he had	F
'Mid the misery and confusion	I
Of an unjust war just made	F
A fortune by the gainful trade	F
Of giving soldiers rations bad	F
The world is full of strange delusion	I
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That he had a mansion planned	F
In a square like Grosvenor Square	B
That he was aping fashion and	F
That he now came to Westmoreland	F
To see what was romantic there	B
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And all this though quite ideal	M2
Ready at a breath to vanish	N2
Was a state not more unreal	M2
Than the peace he could not feel	M2
Or the care he could not banish	N2
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After a little conversation	I
The Devil told Peter if he chose	O2
He'd bring him to the world of fashion	I
By giving him a situation	I
In his own service and new clothes	P2
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And Peter bowed quite pleased and proud	F
And after waiting some few days	Q2
For a new livery dirty yellow	R2
Turned up with black the wretched fellow	R2
Was bowled to Hell in the Devil's chaise	Q2
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PART THE THIRD	F
HELL	S
Hell is a city much like London	I
A populous and a smoky city	F
There are all sorts of people undone	I
And there is little or no fun done	I
Small justice shown and still less pity	F
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There is a Castles and a Canning	A
A Cobbett and a Castlereagh	G
All sorts of caitiff corpses planning	A
All sorts of cozening for trepanning	A
Corpses less corrupt than they	F
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There is a who has lost	F
His wits or sold them none knows which	S2
He walks about a double ghost	F
And though as thin as Fraud almost	F
Ever grows more grim and rich	S2
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There is a Chancery Court a King	A
A manufacturing mob a set	F
Of thieves who by themselves are sent	F
Similar thieves to represent	F
An army and a public debt	F
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Which last is a scheme of paper money	F
And means being interpreted	F
'Bees keep your wax give us the honey	F
And we will plant while skies are sunny	F
Flowers which in winter serve instead '	-
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There is a great talk of revolution	I
And a great chance of despotism	K
German soldiers camps confusion	I
Tumults lotteries ra ge delusion	I
Gin suicide and methodism	K
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Taxes too on wine and bread	F
And meat and beer and tea and cheese	I2
From which those patriots pure are fed	F
Who gorge before they reel to bed	F
The tenfold essence of all these	I2
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There are mincing women mewing	A
Like cats who amant miser	B
Of the	T2