Sir Launcelot And Queen Guinevere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDDDC EEEEFGGGF HHHHIHHHI JJJJKLLLL JJJJLLLLL| LIKE souls that balance joy and pain | A |
| With tears and smiles from heaven again | B |
| The maiden Spring upon the plain | A |
| Came in a sun lit fall of rain | A |
| In crystal vapour everywhere | C |
| Blue isles of heaven laugh'd between | D |
| And far in forest deeps unseen | D |
| The topmost elm tree gather'd green | D |
| From draughts of balmy air | C |
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| Sometimes the linnet piped his song | E |
| Sometimes the throstle whistled strong | E |
| Sometimes the sparhawk wheel'd along | E |
| Hush'd all the groves from fear of wrong | E |
| By grassy capes with fuller sound | F |
| In curves the yellowing river ran | G |
| And drooping chestnut buds began | G |
| To spread into the perfect fan | G |
| Above the teeming ground | F |
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| Then in the boyhood of the year | H |
| Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere | H |
| Rode thro' the coverts of the deer | H |
| With blissful treble ringing clear | H |
| She seem'd a part of joyous Spring | I |
| A gown of grass green silk she wore | H |
| Buckled with golden clasps before | H |
| A light green tuft of plumes she bore | H |
| Closed in a golden ring | I |
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| Now on some twisted ivy net | J |
| Now by some tinkling rivulet | J |
| In mosses mixt with violet | J |
| Her cream white mule his pastern set | J |
| And fleeter now she skimm'd the plains | K |
| Than she whose elfin prancer springs | L |
| By night to eery warblings | L |
| When all the glimmering moorland rings | L |
| With jingling bridle reins | L |
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| As she fled fast thro' sun and shade | J |
| The happy winds upon her play'd | J |
| Blowing the ringlet from the braid | J |
| She look'd so lovely as she sway'd | J |
| The rein with dainty finger tips | L |
| A man had given all other bliss | L |
| And all his worldly worth for this | L |
| To waste his whole heart in one kiss | L |
| Upon her perfect lips | L |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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