The Three Ravens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDEAC DD DD FG HH II| There were three ravens sat on a tree | A |
| They were as black as they might be | A |
| The one of them said to his mate | B |
| 'Where shall we our breakefast take ' | C |
| ' Downe in yonder greene field | D |
| There lies a knight slain under his shield | D |
| 'His hounds they lie downe at his feete | D |
| So well they can their master keepe | E |
| ' His haukes they flie so eagerly | A |
| There's no fowle dare come him nie ' | C |
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| Downe there comes a fallow doe | D |
| As great with yong as she might goe | D |
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| She lift up his bloudy hed | D |
| And kist his wounds that were so red | D |
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| She got him up upon her backe | F |
| And carried him to earthen lake | G |
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| She buried him before the prime | H |
| She was dead herselfe ere even song time | H |
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| God send every gentleman | I |
| Such haukes such hounds and such a leman | I |
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