The Three Ravens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CC DE A FF GG HB II JJ| There were three ravens sat on a tree | A |
| They were as black as they might be | A |
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| The one of them said to his make | B |
| 'Where shall we our breakfast take ' | - |
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| 'Down in yonder greene field | C |
| There lies a knight slain under his shield | C |
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| 'His hounds they lie down at his feet | D |
| So well they can their master keep | E |
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| 'His hawks they flie so eagerly | A |
| There 's no fowl dare come him nigh ' | - |
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| Down there comes a fallow doe | F |
| As great with young as she might goe | F |
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| She lift up his bloudy head | G |
| And kist his wounds that were so red | G |
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| She gat him up upon her back | H |
| And carried him to earthen lake | B |
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| She buried him before the prime | I |
| She was dead herself ere evensong time | I |
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| God send every gentleman | J |
| Such hounds such hawks and such a leman | J |
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