From A Saxon Legend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFG HIHI HCHC AJAJ AKAK LMLM ANAN OPOP QJQJ RSRS| Within a vale in distant Saxony | A |
| In time uncertain though 'twas long ago | B |
| There dwelt a woman most unhappily | A |
| From borrowed trouble and imagined woe | B |
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| Hers was a husband generous and kind | C |
| Her children three were not of uncouth mold | D |
| Hers was a thatch which mocked at rain and wind | C |
| Within her secret purse were coins of gold | D |
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| The drouth had ne'er descended on her field | E |
| Nor had distemper sore distressed her kine | A |
| The vine had given its accustomed yield | E |
| So that her casks were filled with ruddy wine | A |
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| Her sheep and goats waxed fat and ample fleece | F |
| Rewarded every harvest of the shear | G |
| Her lambs all bleated in sequestered peace | F |
| Nor prowling wolf occasioned nightly fear | G |
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| With all she fretted pined and brooded sore | H |
| Harbored each slight vexation courted grief | I |
| Shut out the smiling sunshine from her door | H |
| And magnified each care to bas relief | I |
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| Still waxed her grievous burden more and more | H |
| Till with a resolution rash and blind | C |
| At dead of night she fled her humble door | H |
| As if to leave her grievous load behind | C |
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| She journeyed as the night wore slowly on | A |
| Unmindful of the tuneful nightingale | J |
| Till in due time her footsteps fell upon | A |
| A hill the demarcation of the vale | J |
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| As Lot's wife in her flight could not refrain | A |
| From viewing foul Gomorrah's funeral pyre | K |
| From one last glance across that ancient plain | A |
| At guilty Sodom wreathed in vengeful fire | K |
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| So when this woman reached the summit's crest | L |
| She turned her eyes in one last farewell look | M |
| The fruitful vale lay stretched in placid rest | L |
| And all was silent save the breeze and brook | M |
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| The moon in partial fullness mild serene | A |
| Flooding the landscape with her mellow light | N |
| Illumined every old familiar scene | A |
| Brought their associations to her sight | N |
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| When lo as if by touch of magic wand | O |
| On every roof of tile of thatch or wood | P |
| As instantly as magic doth respond | O |
| A cross of various size and form there stood | P |
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| O'er homes unknown to frown or grievous word | Q |
| O'er homes where laughter hid the silent wail | J |
| O'er homes where discontent was never heard | Q |
| Huge crosses glistened in the moonlight pale | J |
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| A cross o'er every habitation rose | R |
| O'er ducal palace and the cottage small | S |
| Where slept the husbandman in deep repose | R |
| And lo her cross was smallest of them all | S |
Alfred Castner King
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