The Peter-penny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEBFFB GGBHHB| Fresh strewings allow | A |
| To my sepulchre now | A |
| To make my lodging the sweeter | B |
| A staff or a wand | C |
| Put then in my hand | D |
| With a penny to pay S Peter | B |
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| Who has not a cross | E |
| Must sit with the loss | E |
| And no whit further must venture | B |
| Since the porter he | F |
| Will paid have his fee | F |
| Or else not one there must enter | B |
| - | |
| Who at a dead lift | G |
| Can't send for a gift | G |
| A pig to the priest for a roaster | B |
| Shall hear his clerk say | H |
| By yea and by nay | H |
| No penny no paternoster | B |
Robert Herrick
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