The Peter-penny Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDB EEBFFB GGBHHBFresh 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 |
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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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