The Knight's Leap: A Legend Of Altenahr Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FAGA EHEH IJK AEAE GLGL MNON N| 'So the foemen have fired the gate men of mine | A |
| And the water is spent and gone | B |
| Then bring me a cup of the red Ahr wine | A |
| I never shall drink but this one | C |
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| 'And reach me my harness and saddle my horse | D |
| And lead him me round to the door | E |
| He must take such a leap to night perforce | D |
| As horse never took before | E |
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| 'I have fought my fight I have lived my life | F |
| I have drunk my share of wine | A |
| From Trier to Coln there was never a knight | G |
| Led a merrier life than mine | A |
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| 'I have lived by the saddle for years two score | E |
| And if I must die on tree | H |
| Then the old saddle tree which has borne me of yore | E |
| Is the properest timber for me | H |
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| 'So now to show bishop and burgher and priest | I |
| How the Altenahr hawk can die | J |
| If they smoke the old falcon out of his nest | K |
| He must take to his wings and fly ' | - |
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| He harnessed himself by the clear moonshine | A |
| And he mounted his horse at the door | E |
| And he drained such a cup of the red Ahr wine | A |
| As man never drained before | E |
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| He spurred the old horse and he held him tight | G |
| And he leapt him out over the wall | L |
| Out over the cliff out into the night | G |
| Three hundred feet of fall | L |
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| They found him next morning below in the glen | M |
| With never a bone in him whole | N |
| A mass or a prayer now good gentlemen | O |
| For such a bold rider's soul | N |
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| Eversley | N |
Charles Kingsley
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