Scene 1. A Castle In Normandy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD ACDC E FGFGHIJIKLKM NOPOPQRQRSTTT AUVUVWX NWXYZYZ AA2 NB2C2B2C2 D2 TDNDNE2TE2T F2G2F2G2E2TE2T H2TH2TE2TE2T I2C2I2C2E2TE2T J2K2 T J2K2TL2TL2M2HM2J| Hugo | A |
| Well boy what is it | B |
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| Henry | C |
| The feast is spread | D |
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| Hugo | A |
| Why tarry the guests for me | C |
| Let Eric sit at the table's head | D |
| Alone I desire to be | C |
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| Henry goes out | E |
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| What share have I at their festive board | F |
| Their mirth I can only mar | G |
| To me no pleasure their cups afford | F |
| Their songs on my silence jar | G |
| With an aching eye and a throbbing brain | H |
| And yet with a hopeful heart | I |
| I must toil and strain with the planets again | J |
| When the rays of the sun depart | I |
| He who must needs with the topers tope | K |
| And the feasters feast in the hall | L |
| How can he hope with a matter to cope | K |
| That is immaterial | M |
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| Orion | N |
| He who his appetite stints and curbs | O |
| Shut up in the northern wing | P |
| With his rye bread flavoured with bitter herbs | O |
| And his draught from the tasteless spring | P |
| Good sooth he is but a sorry clown | Q |
| There are some good things upon earth | R |
| Pleasure and power and fair renown | Q |
| And wisdom of worldly worth | R |
| There is wisdom in follies that charm the sense | S |
| In follies that light the eyes | T |
| But the folly to wisdom that makes pretence | T |
| Is alone by the fool termed wise | T |
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| Hugo | A |
| Thy speech Orion is somewhat rude | U |
| Perchance having jeer'd and scoff'd | V |
| To thy fill thou wilt curb thy jeering mood | U |
| I wot thou hast served me oft | V |
| This plan of the skies seems fairly traced | W |
| What errors canst thou detect | X |
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| Orion | N |
| Nay the constellations are misplaced | W |
| And the satellites incorrect | X |
| Leave the plan to me you have time to seek | Y |
| An hour of needful rest | Z |
| The night is young and the planets are weak | Y |
| See the sun still reddens the west | Z |
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| Hugo | A |
| I fear I shall sleep too long | A2 |
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| Orion | N |
| If you do | B2 |
| It matters not much the sky | C2 |
| Is cloudy the stars will be faint and few | B2 |
| Now list to my lullaby | C2 |
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| Hugo reclines on a couch | D2 |
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| Sings | T |
| Still the darkling skies are red | D |
| Though the day god's course is run | N |
| Heavenly night lamps overhead | D |
| Flash and twinkle one by one | N |
| Idle dreamer earth born elf | E2 |
| Vainly grasping heavenly things | T |
| Wherefore weariest thou thyself | E2 |
| With thy vain imaginings | T |
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| From the tree of knowledge first | F2 |
| Since his parents pluck'd the fruit | G2 |
| Man with partial knowledge curs'd | F2 |
| Of the tree still seeks the root | G2 |
| Musty volumes crowd thy shelf | E2 |
| Which of these true knowledge brings | T |
| Wherefore weariest thou thyself | E2 |
| With thy vain imaginings | T |
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| Will the stars from heaven descend | H2 |
| Can the earth worm soar and rise | T |
| Can the mortal comprehend | H2 |
| Heaven's own hallow'd mysteries | T |
| Greed and glory power and pelf | E2 |
| These are won by clowns and kings | T |
| Wherefore weariest thou thyself | E2 |
| With thy vain imaginings | T |
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| Sow and reap and toil and spin | I2 |
| Eat and drink and dream and die | C2 |
| Man may strive yet never win | I2 |
| And I laugh the while and cry | C2 |
| Idle dreamer earth born elf | E2 |
| Vainly grasping heavenly things | T |
| Wherefore weariest thou thyself | E2 |
| With thy vain imaginings | T |
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| He sleeps and his sleep appears serene | J2 |
| Whatever dreams it has brought him | K2 |
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| Looks at the plans | T |
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| If he knows what those hieroglyphics mean | J2 |
| He's wiser than one who taught him | K2 |
| Why does he number the Pole star thus | T |
| Or the Pleiades why combine | L2 |
| And what is he doing with Sirius | T |
| In the devil's name or in mine | L2 |
| Man thinks discarding the beaten track | M2 |
| That the sins of his youth are slain | H |
| When he seeks fresh sins but he soon comes back | M2 |
| To his old pet sins again | J |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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