Kate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBDEFDEFGHGH IJKJIJLKKJLGG| I know her by her angry air | A |
| Her bright black eyes her bright black hair | A |
| Her rapid laughters wild and shrill | B |
| As laughters of the woodpecker | C |
| From the bosom of a hill | B |
| 'Tis Kate she sayeth what she will | B |
| For Kate hath an unbridled tongue | D |
| Clear as the twanging of a harp | E |
| Her heart is like a throbbing star | F |
| Kate hath a spirit ever strung | D |
| Like a new bow and bright and sharp | E |
| As edges of the scimitar | F |
| Whence shall she take a fitting mate | G |
| For Kate no common love will feel | H |
| My woman soldier gallant Kate | G |
| As pure and true as blades of steel | H |
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| Kate saith 'the world is void of might ' | - |
| Kate saith 'the men are gilded flies ' | - |
| Kate snaps her fingers at my vows | I |
| Kate will not hear of lovers' sighs | J |
| I would I were an armed knight | K |
| Far famed for well won enterprise | J |
| And wearing on my swarthy brows | I |
| The garland of new wreathed emprise | J |
| For in a moment I would pierce | L |
| The blackest files of clanging fight | K |
| And strongly strike to left and right | K |
| In dreaming of my lady's eyes | J |
| O Kate loves well the bold and fierce | L |
| But none are bold enough for Kate | G |
| She cannot find a fitting mate | G |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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