Gil, The Toreador Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED ABFBDDED GBHBBDID JBBBBDID| THE QUEEN sat in her balcony | A |
| The Loveliest of Spain | B |
| Beneath rode all the chivalry | A |
| And roses fell like rain | B |
| To crown the gallant gentlemen | C |
| The gonfalon who bore | D |
| A woman s favor fell for one | E |
| Gil the Toreador | D |
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| Beneath the royal canopy | A |
| To see the red bull slain | B |
| They sat like loyal lovers | F |
| The King and Queen of Spain | B |
| Came marshal noble knight and squire | D |
| Chulo and picador | D |
| Of all a woman saw but one | E |
| Gil the Toreador | D |
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| The trumpets clanged the sport was on | G |
| The royal sport of Spain | B |
| Maddened by shouts and thrust of lance | H |
| The bull now charged amain | B |
| Down to their death went chulos then | B |
| And many a matador | D |
| A woman only knew there fell | I |
| Gil the Toreador | D |
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| When through the streets of proud Madrid | J |
| Swept next the courtly train | B |
| Sat not upon her balcony | B |
| The Loveliest of Spain | B |
| Long live the King and his fair Queen | B |
| Still loyal thousands roar | D |
| None know what woman died when fell | I |
| Gil the Toreador | D |
Charles Harper Webb
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