The Tourney Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAABC DBEEBC EEEEEC| Ralph would fight in Edith's sight | A |
| For Ralph was Edith's lover | B |
| Ralph went down like a fire to the fight | A |
| Struck to the left and struck to the right | A |
| Roll'd them over and over | B |
| 'Gallant Sir Ralph ' said the king | C |
| - | |
| Casques were crack'd and hauberks hack'd | D |
| Lances snapt in sunder | B |
| Rang the stroke and sprang the blood | E |
| Knights were thwack'd and riven and hew'd | E |
| Like broad oaks with thunder | B |
| 'O what an arm ' said the king | C |
| - | |
| Edith bow'd her stately head | E |
| Saw them lie confounded | E |
| Edith Montfort bow'd her head | E |
| Crown'd her knight's and flush'd as red | E |
| As poppies when she crown'd it | E |
| 'Take her Sir Ralph ' said the king | C |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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