St. Jerome On Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDD EEFFF GGHHFF FFFFCCII JJCCKKKFFFF LLFFFFMMNNO| FIRST VISIT | A |
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| As St Jerome who died some ages ago | B |
| Was sitting one day in the shades below | B |
| I've heard much of English bishops quoth he | C |
| And shall now take a trip to earth to see | C |
| How far they agree in their lives and ways | D |
| With our good old bishops of ancient days | D |
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| He had learned but learned without misgivings | E |
| Their love for good living and eke good livings | E |
| Not knowing as ne'er having taken degrees | F |
| That good living means claret and fricassees | F |
| While its plural means simply pluralities | F |
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| From all I hear said the innocent man | G |
| They are quite on the good old primitive plan | G |
| For wealth and pomp they little can care | H |
| As they all say 'No' to the Episcopal chair | H |
| And their vestal virtue it well denotes | F |
| That they all good men wear petticoats | F |
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| Thus saying post haste to earth he hurries | F |
| And knocks at the Archbishop of Canterbury's | F |
| The door was oped by a lackey in lace | F |
| Saying What's your business with his Grace | F |
| His Grace quoth Jerome for posed was he | C |
| Not knowing what sort this Grace could be | C |
| Whether Grace preventing Grace particular | I |
| Grace of that breed called Quinquarticular | I |
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| In short he rummaged his holy mind | J |
| The exact description of Grace to find | J |
| Which thus could represented be | C |
| By a footman in full livery | C |
| At last out loud in a laugh he broke | K |
| For dearly the good saint loved his joke | K |
| And said surveying as sly he spoke | K |
| The costly palace from roof to base | F |
| Well it isn't at least a saving Grace | F |
| Umph said the lackey a man of few words | F |
| The Archbishop is gone to the House of Lords | F |
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| To the House of the Lord you mean my son | L |
| For in my time at least there was but one | L |
| Unless such many fold priests as these | F |
| Seek even in their LORD pluralities | F |
| No time for gab quoth the man in lace | F |
| Then slamming the door in St Jerome's face | F |
| With a curse to the single knockers all | M |
| Went to finish his port in the servants' hall | M |
| And propose a toast humanely meant | N |
| To include even Curates in its extent | N |
| To all as serves the Establishment | O |
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