The Twins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CBCB CDC E CBCB E CFCF E GBGB E HCH| Give'' and It shall be given unto you '' | A |
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| I | - |
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| Grand rough old Martin Luther | B |
| Bloomed fables flowers on furze | C |
| The better the uncouther | B |
| Do roses stick like burrs | C |
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| II | - |
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| A beggar asked an alms | C |
| One day at an abbey door | B |
| Said Luther but seized with qualms | C |
| The abbot replied We're poor | B |
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| III | - |
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| Poor who had plenty once | C |
| When gifts fell thick as rain | D |
| But they give us nought for the nonce | C |
| And how should we give again '' | - |
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| IV | E |
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| Then the beggar See your sins | C |
| Of old unless I err | B |
| Ye had brothers for inmates twins | C |
| Date and Dabitur | B |
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| V | E |
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| While Date was in good case | C |
| Dabitur flourished too | F |
| For Dabitur's lenten face | C |
| No wonder if Date rue | F |
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| VI | E |
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| Would ye retrieve the one | G |
| Try and make plump the other | B |
| When Date's penance is done | G |
| Dabitur helps his brother | B |
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| VII | E |
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| Only beware relapse '' | - |
| The Abbot hung his head | H |
| This beggar might be perhaps | C |
| An angel Luther said | H |
Robert Browning
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