The Legends Of The Rhine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHGGCCIIFF GGJJJCCKKCFF CCGGLLFF GGMMCCFFBeetling walls with ivy grown | A |
Frowning heights of mossy stone | A |
Turret with its flaunting flag | B |
Flung from battlemented crag | B |
Dungeon keep and fortalice | C |
Looking down a precipice | C |
O'er the darkly glancing wave | D |
By the Lurline haunted cave | D |
Robber haunt and maiden bower | E |
Home of Love and Crime and Power | E |
That's the scenery in fine | F |
Of the Legends of the Rhine | F |
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One bold baron double dyed | G |
Bigamist and parricide | G |
And as most the stories run | H |
Partner of the Evil One | H |
Injured innocence in white | G |
Fair but idiotic quite | G |
Wringing of her lily hands | C |
Valor fresh from Paynim lands | C |
Abbot ruddy hermit pale | I |
Minstrel fraught with many a tale | I |
Are the actors that combine | F |
In the Legends of the Rhine | F |
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Bell mouthed flagons round a board | G |
Suits of armor shield and sword | G |
Kerchief with its bloody stain | J |
Ghosts of the untimely slain | J |
Thunder clap and clanking chain | J |
Headsman's block and shining axe | C |
Thumb screw crucifixes racks | C |
Midnight tolling chapel bell | K |
Heard across the gloomy fell | K |
These and other pleasant facts | C |
Are the properties that shine | F |
In the Legends of the Rhine | F |
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Maledictions whispered vows | C |
Underneath the linden boughs | C |
Murder bigamy and theft | G |
Travelers of goods bereft | G |
Rapine pillage arson spoil | L |
Everything but honest toil | L |
Are the deeds that best define | F |
Every Legend of the Rhine | F |
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That Virtue always meets reward | G |
But quicker when it wears a sword | G |
That Providence has special care | M |
Of gallant knight and lady fair | M |
That villains as a thing of course | C |
Are always haunted by remorse | C |
Is the moral I opine | F |
Of the Legends of the Rhine | F |
Bret Harte (francis)
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