Guinevere At Her Fireside Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF HIHI ABAB| A nobler king had never breath | A |
| I say it now and said it then | B |
| Who weds with such is wed till death | A |
| And wedded stays in Heaven Amen | B |
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| And oh the shirts of linen lawn | C |
| And all the armor tagged and tied | D |
| And church on Sundays dusk and dawn | C |
| And bed a thing to kneel beside | D |
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| The bravest one stood tall above | E |
| The rest and watched me as a light | F |
| I heard and heard them talk of love | E |
| I'd naught to do but think at night | F |
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| The bravest man has littlest brains | G |
| That chalky fool from Astolat | F |
| With all her dying and her pains | G |
| Thank God I helped him over that | F |
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| I found him not unfair to see | H |
| I like a man with peppered hair | I |
| And thus it came about Ah me | H |
| Tristram was busied otherwhere | I |
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| A nobler king had never breath | A |
| I say it now and said it then | B |
| Who weds with such is wed till death | A |
| And wedded stays in Heaven Amen | B |
Dorothy Parker
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