The Cardinal And The Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCC DDEEFF CCCC| Browning wrote this poem in for Macready's son who was ill He had also written the Pied Piper of Hamelin at the same time | A |
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| Crescenzio the Pope's Legate at the High Council Trent | B |
| Year Fifteen hundred twenty two March Twenty five intent | B |
| On writing letters to the Pope till late into the night | C |
| Rose weary to refresh himself and saw a monstrous sight | C |
| I give mine Author's very words he penned I reindite | C |
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| A black Dog of vast bigness eyes flaming ears that hung | D |
| Down to the very ground almost into the chamber sprung | D |
| And made directly for him and laid himself right under | E |
| The table where Crescenzio wrote who called in fear and wonder | E |
| His servants in the ante room commanded every one | F |
| To look for and find out the beast but looking they found none | F |
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| The Cardinal fell melancholy then sick soon after died | C |
| And at Verona as be lay on his death bed he cried | C |
| Aloud to drive away the Dog that leapt on his bedside | C |
| Heaven keep us Protestants from harm the rest no ill betide | C |
Robert Browning
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