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Ponte Dell' Angelo, Venice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Stop rowing This one of our bye canals	A
O'er a certain bridge you have to cross	B
That's named Of the Angel listen why	C
The name Of the Devil too much appalls	D
Venetian acquaintance so his the loss	B
While the gain goes look on high	C
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An angel visibly guards yon house	E
Above each scutcheon a pair stands he	F
Enfolds them with droop of either wing	G
The family's fortune were perilous	H
Did he thence depart you will soon agree	F
If I hitch into verse the thing	G
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For once on a time this house belonged	I
To a lawyer of note with law and to spare	J
But also with overmuch lust of gain	K
In the matter of law you were nowise wronged	I
But alas for the lucre He picked you bare	J
To the bone Did folk complain	K
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I exact growled he work's rightful due	L
'Tis folk seek me not I seek them	M
Advice at its price They succeed or fail	N
Get law in each case and a lesson too	L
Keep clear of the Courts is advice ad rem	M
They'll remember I'll be bail	N
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So he pocketed fee without a qualm	M
What reason for squeamishness Labor done	O
To play he betook him with lightened heart	P
Ate drank and made merry with song or Psalm	M
Since the yoke of the Church is an easy one	O
Fits neck nor causes smart	P
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Brief never was such an extortionate	Q
Rascal the word has escaped my teeth	R
And yet all's down in a book no ass	S
Indited believe me this reprobate	T
Was punctual at prayer time gold lurked beneath	R
Alloy of the rankest brass	S
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For play the extortioner as he might	U
Fleece folk each day and all day long	V
There was this redeeming circumstance	W
He never lay down to sleep at night	U
But he put up a prayer first brief yet strong	V
Our Lady avert mischance	W
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Now it happened at close of a fructuous week	X
I must ask quoth he some Saint to dine	Y
I want that widow well out of my ears	W
With her ailing and wailing Who bade her seek	X
Redress at my hands 'She was wronged ' Folk whine	Y
If to Law wrong right appears	W
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Matteo da Bascio he's my man	Z
No less than Chief of the Capucins	W
His presence will surely suffumigate	U
My house fools think lies under a ban	Z
If somebody loses what somebody wins	W
Hark there he knocks at the grate	U
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Come in thou blessed of Mother Church	A2
I go and prepare to bid that is	W
My trusty and diligent servitor	J
Get all things in readiness Vain the search	A2
Through Venice for one to compare with this	W
My model of ministrants for	J
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For once again nay three times over	J
My helpmate's an ape so intelligent	U
I train him to drudge at household work	B2
He toils and he moils I live in clover	J
Oh you shall see There's a goodly scent	U
From his cooking or I'm a Turk	B2
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Scarce need to descend and supervise	W
I'll do it however wait here awhile	C2
So down to the kitchen gayly scuttles	W
Our host nor notes the alarmed surmise	W
Of the holy man O depth of guile	C2
He blindly guzzles and guttles	W
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While who is it dresses the food and pour	J
The liquor Some fiend I make no doubt	U
In likeness of which of the loathly brutes	W
An ape Where hides he No bull that gores	W
No bear that hugs 't is the mock and flow	D2
Of an ape fiend's face that suits	W
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So out with thee creature wherever thou hidest	U
I charge thee by virtue of right do I judge	E2
There skulks he perdue crouching under the bed	U
Well done What forsooth in beast's shape thou confidest	U
I know and would name thee but that I begrudge	E2
Breath spent on such carrion Instead	U
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I adjure thee by Stay laughed the portent that rose	W
From floor up to ceiling No need to adjure	J
See Satan in person late ape by command	U
Of Him thou adjurest in vain A saint's nose	W
Scents brimstone though incense be burned for a lure	J
Yet hence for I'm safe understand	U
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'Tis my charge to convey to fit punishment's place	W
This lawyer my liegeman for cruelty wrought	U
On his clients the widow and orphan poor souls	W
He has plagued by exactions which proved law's disgrace	W
Made equity void and to nothingness brought	U
God's pity Fiends on with fresh coals	W
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Stay nowise confounded withstands Hell its match	F2
How comes it were truth in this story of thine	Y
God's punishment suffered a minute's delay	G2
Weeks months have elapsed since thou squattedst at watch	H2
For a spring on thy victim what caused thee decline	Y
Advantage till challenged to day	G2
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That challenge I meet with contempt quoth the fiend	U
Thus much I acknowledge the man's armed in mail	N
I wait till a joint's loose then quick ply my claws	W
Thy friend's one good custom he knows not has screened	U
His flesh hitherto from what else would assail	N
At 'Save me Madonna ' I pause	W
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That prayer did the losel but once pretermit	U
My pounce were upon him I keep me attent	U
He's in safety but till he's caught napping Enough	I2
Ay enough smiles the Saint for the biter is bit	U
The spy caught in somnolence Vanish I'm sent	U
To smooth up what fiends do in rough	I2
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I Vanish Through wall or through roof the ripost	U
Grinned gayly My orders were 'Leave not unharmed	U
The abode of this lawyer Do damage to prove	J2
'T was for something thou quittedst the land of the lost	U
To add to their number this unit ' Though charmed	U
From descent there on earth that's above	K2
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I may haply amerce him So do and begone	Y
I command thee For look Though there's doorway behind	U
And window before thee go straight through the wall	L2
Leave a breach in the brickwork a gap in the stone	Y
For who passes to stare at Spare speech I'm resigned	U
Here goes roared the goblin as all	L2
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Wide bat wings spread arms and legs tail out a stream	M
Crash obstacles went right and left as he soared	U
Or else sank was clean gone through the hole anyhow	M2
The Saint returned thanks then a satisfied gleam	M
On the bald polished pate showed that triumph was scored	U
To dinner with appetite now	M2
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Down he trips In good time smirks the host Didst thou scent	U
Rich savor of roast meat Where hides he my ape	N2
Look alive be alert He's away to wash plates	W
Sit down Saint What's here Dost examine a rent	U
In the napkin thou twistest and twirlest Agape	N2
Ha blood is it drips nor abates	W
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From thy wringing a cloth late was lavendered fair	J
What means such a marvel Just this does it mean	Y
I convince and convict thee of sin answers straight	U
The Saint wringing on wringing ever oh rare	J
Blood blood from a napery snow not more clean	Y
A miracle shows thee thy state	U
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See blood thy extortions have wrung from the flesh	O2
Of thy clients who sheep like arrived to be shorn	Y
And left thee or fleeced to the quick or so flayed	U
That behold their blood gurgles and grumbles afresh	O2
To accuse thee Ay down on thy knees get up sworn	Y
To restore Restitution once made	U
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Sin no more Dost thou promise Absolved then arise	W
Upstairs follow me Art amazed at yon breach	P2
Who battered and shattered and scattered escape	N2
From thy purlieus obtaining That Father of Lies	W
Thou wast wont to extol for his feats all and each	P2
The Devil's disguised as thine ape	N2
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Be sure that our lawyer was torn by remorse	W
Shed tears in a flood vowed and swore so to alter	J
His ways that how else could our Saint but declare	J
He was cleansed of past sin For sin future fare worse	W
Thou undoubtedly wilt warned the Saint shouldst thou falter	J
One whit Oh for that have no care	J
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I am firm in my purposed amendment But prithee	R
Must ever affront and affright me yon gap	Q2
Who made it for exit may find it of use	W
For entrance as easy If down in his smithy	R
He forges me fetters when heated mayhap	Q2
He'll up with an armful Broke loose	W
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How bar him out henceforth Judiciously urged	U
Was the good man's reply How to balk him is plain	Y
There's nothing the Devil objects to so much	R2
So speedily flies from as one of those purged	U
Of his presence the angels who erst formed his train	Y
His their emperor Choose one of such	R2
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Get fashioned his likeness and set him on high	C
At back of the breach thus adroitly filled up	Q2
Display him as guard of two scutcheons thy arms	W
I warrant no devil attempts to get by	C
And disturb thee so guarded Eat drink dine and sup	Q2
In thy rectitude safe from alarms	W
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So said and so done See the angel has place	W
Where the Devil has passage All's down in a book	S2
Gainsay me Consult it Still faithless Trust me	M
Trust Father Boverio who gave me the case	W
In his Annals gets of it by hook or by crook	S2
Two confirmative witnesses three	M
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Are surely enough to establish an act	U
And thereby we learn would we ascertain truth	R
To trust wise tradition which took at the time	M
Note that served till slow history ventured on fact	U
Though folk have their fling at tradition forsooth	R
Row boys fore and aft rhyme and chime	M