Poor Peter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEAEFGFH IJIJKLKL AMAMNHNG| Blind Peter Piper used to play | A |
| All up and down the city | B |
| I'd often meet him on my way | A |
| And throw a coin for pity | B |
| But all amid his sparkling tones | C |
| His ear was quick as any | B |
| To catch upon the cobble stones | C |
| The jingle of my penny | B |
| - | |
| And as upon a day that shone | D |
| He piped a merry measure | E |
| How well you play I chanced to say | A |
| Poor Peter glowed with pleasure | E |
| You'd think the words of praise I spoke | F |
| Were all the pay he needed | G |
| The artist in the player woke | F |
| The penny lay unheeded | H |
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| Now Winter's here the wind is shrill | I |
| His coat is thin and tattered | J |
| Yet hark he's playing trill on trill | I |
| As if his music mattered | J |
| And somehow though the city looks | K |
| Soaked through and through with shadows | L |
| He makes you think of singing brooks | K |
| And larks and sunny meadows | L |
| - | |
| Poor chap he often starves they say | A |
| Well well I can believe it | M |
| For when you chuck a coin his way | A |
| He'll let some street boy thieve it | M |
| I fear he freezes in the night | N |
| My praise I've long repented | H |
| Yet look his face is all alight | N |
| Blind Peter seems contented | G |
Robert Service
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