Puritans - (from Hudibras) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEAFGEHIJKLMNOOP PQRRSS| Our brethren of New England use | A |
| Choice malefactors to excuse | A |
| And hang the guiltless in their stead | B |
| Of whom the churches have less need | C |
| As late it happened in a town | D |
| Where lived a cobbler and but one | E |
| That out of doctrine could cut use | A |
| And mend men's lives as well as shoes | F |
| This precious brother having slain | G |
| In times of peace an Indian | E |
| Not out of malice but mere zeal | H |
| Because he was an infidel | I |
| The mighty Tottipotimoy | J |
| Complaining loudly of the breach | K |
| Of league held forth by brother Patch | L |
| Against the articles in force | M |
| Between both churches his and ours | N |
| For which he craved the saints to render | O |
| Into his hands or hang the offender | O |
| But they maturely having weighed | P |
| They had no more but him of the trade | P |
| A man that served them in the double | Q |
| Capacity to spare him yet to do | R |
| The Indian Hogan Mogan too | R |
| Impartial justice in his stead did | S |
| Hang an old weaver that was bedrid | S |
Samuel Butler
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