The Haunted Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDADAEFEFGHGHIJIJ CHCHKJKJLCMCNONOBABA PNPN KQKJ| Suggested by a poem of Theophile Gautier | A |
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| In front he saw the donjon tall | B |
| Deep in the woods and stayed to scan | C |
| The guards that slept along the wall | B |
| Or dozed upon the bartizan | C |
| He marked the drowsy flag that hung | D |
| Unwaved by wind unfrayed by shower | A |
| He listened to the birds that sung | D |
| Go forth and win the haunted tower | A |
| The tangled brake made way for him | E |
| The twisted brambles bent aside | F |
| And lo he pierced the forest dim | E |
| And lo he won the fairy bride | F |
| For HE was young but ah we find | G |
| All we whose beards are flecked with grey | H |
| Our fairy castle's far behind | G |
| We watch it from the darkling way | H |
| 'Twas ours that palace in our youth | I |
| We revelled there in happy cheer | J |
| Who scarce dare visit now in sooth | I |
| Le Vieux Chateau de Souvenir | J |
| For not the boughs of forest green | C |
| Begird that castle far away | H |
| There is a mist where we have been | C |
| That weeps about it cold and grey | H |
| And if we seek to travel back | K |
| 'Tis through a thicket dim and sere | J |
| With many a grave beside the track | K |
| And many a haunting form of fear | J |
| Dead leaves are wet among the moss | L |
| With weed and thistle overgrown | C |
| A ruined barge within the fosse | M |
| A castle built of crumbling stone | C |
| The drawbridge drops from rusty chains | N |
| There comes no challenge from the hold | O |
| No squire nor dame nor knight remains | N |
| Of all who dwelt with us of old | O |
| And there is silence in the hall | B |
| No sound of songs no ray of fire | A |
| But gloom where all was glad and all | B |
| Is darkened with a vain desire | A |
| And every picture's fading fast | P |
| Of fair Jehanne or Cydalise | N |
| Lo the white shadows hurrying past | P |
| Below the boughs of dripping trees | N |
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| Ah rise and march and look not back | K |
| Now the long way has brought us here | Q |
| We may not turn and seek the track | K |
| To the old Chateau de Souvenir | J |
Andrew Lang
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