The Legends Of The Rhine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF GGHHGGCCIIFF GGJJJCCKKCFF CCGGLLFF GGMMCCFF| Beetling 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
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