Influence
The Verses pascales are followed in the manuscript by another short drama, the Versus de pelegrino, composed by the same person from Vic and also concentrating on Mary Magdalene.
Lines 32–66 form five strophes, each line of the first ending in a, each of the second in e, of the third in i, the fourth in o, and the fifth in u. This strophic, alphabetic vowel-based rhyme scheme is entirely unique in medieval literature. Dronke calls it a "virtuous invention". It found its way to Austria by the end of the century and was used by Walther von der Vogelweide for a German lament of the passing of summer, Diu welt was gelf, rôt unde blâ. Der Marner, a disciple of Walther, repeated the theme and the rhyme in the Latin Iam dudum estivalia, where winter represents the cooling of love. This latter poem is preserved among the Carmina Burana and explains the path by which the theme of Mary and the Merchant could make its way to the Tyrol and the Ludus de passione (passion play) of the Carmina Burana.
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