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Lancelot 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Gawaine aware again of Lancelot	A
In the King's garden coughed and followed him	B
Whereat he turned and stood with folded arms	C
And weary waiting eyes cold and half closed	D
Hard eyes where doubts at war with memories	E
Fanned a sad wrath Why frown upon a friend	F
Few live that have too many Gawaine said	G
And wished unsaid so thinly came the light	H
Between the narrowing lids at which he gazed	I
And who of us are they that name their friends	J
Lancelot said They live that have not any	K
Why do they live Gawaine Ask why and answer	L
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Two men of an elected eminence	M
They stood for a time silent Then Gawaine	K
Acknowledging the ghost of what was gone	K
Put out his hand Rather I say why ask	N
If I be not the friend of Lancelot	A
May I be nailed alive along the ground	O
And emmets eat me dead If I be not	A
The friend of Lancelot may I be fried	P
With other liars in the pans of hell	Q
What item otherwise of immolation	K
Your Darkness may invent be it mine to endure	R
And yours to gloat on For the time between	K
Consider this thing you see that is my hand	S
If once it has been yours a thousand times	T
Why not again Gawaine has never lied	P
To Lancelot and this of all wrong days	U
This day before the day when you go south	V
To God knows what accomplishment of exile	W
Were surely an ill day for lies to find	X
An issue or a cause or an occasion	K
King Ban your father and King Lot my father	L
Were they alive would shake their heads in sorrow	Y
To see us as we are and I shake mine	K
In wonder Will you take my hand or no	Y
Strong as I am I do not hold it out	Z
For ever and on air You see my hand	S
Lancelot gave his hand there to Gawaine	Y
Who took it held it and then let it go	Y
Chagrined with its indifference	M
Yes Gawaine	Y
I go tomorrow and I wish you well	Q
You and your brothers Gareth Gaheris	M
And Agravaine yes even Agravaine	Y
Whose tongue has told all Camelot and all Britain	Y
More lies than yet have hatched of Modred's envy	K
You say that you have never lied to me	K
And I believe it so Let it be so	M
For now and always Gawaine I wish you well	Q
Tomorrow I go south as Merlin went	A2
But not for Merlin's end I go Gawaine	Y
And leave you to your ways There are ways left	B2
There are three ways I know three famous ways	M
And all in Holy Writ Gawaine said smiling	C2
The snake's way and the eagle's way are two	D2
And then we have a man's way with a maid	E2
Or with a woman who is not a maid	E2
Your late way is to send all women scudding	C2
To the last flash of the last cramoisy	M
While you go south to find the fires of God	F2
Since we came back again to Camelot	A
From our immortal Quest I came back first	G2
No man has known you for the man you were	L
Before you saw whatever 't was you saw	M
To make so little of kings and queens and friends	M
Thereafter Modred Agravaine My brothers	M
And what if they be brothers What are brothers	M
If they be not our friends your friends and mine	Y
You turn away and my words are no mark	C2
On you affection or your memory	K
So be it then if so it is to be	K
God save you Lancelot for by Saint Stephen	Y
You are no more than man to save yourself	H2
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Gawaine I do not say that you are wrong	C2
Or that you are ill seasoned in your lightness	M
You say that all you know is what you saw	M
And on your own averment you saw nothing	C2
Your spoken word Gawaine I have not weighed	E2
In those unhappy scales of inference	M
That have no beam but one made out of hates	M
And fears and venomous conjecturings	M
Your tongue is not the sword that urges me	K
Now out of Camelot Two other swords	M
There are that are awake and in their scabbards	M
Are parching for the blood of Lancelot	A
Yet I go not away for fear of them	I2
But for a sharper care You say the truth	J2
But not when you contend the fires of God	F2
Are my one fear for there is one fear more	K2
Therefore I go Gawaine I wish you well	Q
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Well wishing in a way is well enough	L2
So in a way is caution so in a way	M2
Are leeches neatherds and astrologers	M
Lancelot listen Sit you down and listen	Y
You talk of swords and fears and banishment	N2
Two swords you say Modred and Agravaine	Y
You mean Had you meant Gaheris and Gareth	O2
Or willed an evil on them I should welcome	P2
And hasten your farewell But Agravaine	Y
Hears little what I say his ears are Modred's	M
The King is Modred's father and the Queen	Y
A prepossession of Modred's lunacy	M
So much for my two brothers whom you fear	Q2
Not fearing for yourself I say to you	D2
Fear not for anything and so be wise	M
And amiable again as heretofore	K2
Let Modred have his humor and Agravaine	Y
His tongue The two of them have done their worst	G2
And having done their worst what have they done	Y
A whisper now and then a chirrup or so	M
In corners and what else Ask what and answer	L
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Still with a frown that had no faith in it	R2
Lancelot pitying Gawaine's lost endeavour	L
To make an evil jest of evidence	M
Sat fronting him with a remote forbearance	M
Whether for Gawaine blind or Gawaine false	M
Or both or neither he could not say yet	S2
If ever and to himself he said no more	K2
Than he said now aloud What else Gawaine	Y
What else am I to say Then ruin I say	M
Destruction dissolution desolation	Y
I say should I compound with jeopardy now	Y
For there are more than whispers here Gawaine	Y
The way that we have gone so long together	L
Has underneath our feet without our will	T2
Become a twofold faring Yours I trust	U2
May lead you always on as it has led you	D2
To praise and to much joy Mine I believe	V2
Leads off to battles that are not yet fought	W2
And to the Light that once had blinded me	M
When I came back from seeing what I saw	M
I saw no place for me in Camelot	A
There is no place for me in Camelot	A
There is no place for me save where the Light	H
May lead me and to that place I shall go	M
Meanwhile I lay upon your soul no load	X2
Of counsel or of empty admonition	Y
Only I ask of you should strife arise	M
In Camelot to remember if you may	M
That you've an ardor that outruns your reason	Y
Also a glamour that outshines your guile	W
And you are a strange hater I know that	Y2
And I'm in fortune that you hate not me	M
Yet while we have our sins to dream about	Z
Time has done worse for time than in our making	C2
Albeit there may be sundry falterings	M
And falls against us in the Book of Man	Y
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Praise Adam you are mellowing at last	Z2
I've always liked this world and would so still	T2
And if it is your new Light leads you on	Y
To such an admirable gait for God's sake	C2
Follow it follow it follow it Lancelot	A
Follow it as you never followed glory	M
Once I believed that I was on the way	M
That you call yours but I came home again	Y
To Camelot and Camelot was right	H
For the world knows its own that knows not you	D2
You are a thing too vaporous to be sharing	C2
The carnal feast of life You mow down men	Y
Like elder stems and you leave women sighing	C2
For one more sight of you but they do wrong	C2
You are a man of mist and have no shadow	M
God save you Lancelot If I laugh at you	D2
I laugh in envy and in admiration	Y
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The joyless evanescence of a smile	W
Discovered on the face of Lancelot	A
By Gawaine's unrelenting vigilance	M
Wavered and with a sullen change went out	Z
And then there was the music of a woman	Y
Laughing behind them and a woman spoke	C2
Gawaine you said God save you Lancelot '	-
Why should He save him any more to day	M
Than on another day What has he done	Y
Gawaine that God should save him Guinevere	M
With many questions in her dark blue eyes	M
And one gay jewel in her golden hair	M
Had come upon the two of them unseen	Y
Till now she was a russet apparition	Y
At which the two arose one with a dash	A3
Of easy leisure in his courtliness	M
One with a stately calm that might have pleased	B3
The Queen of a strange land indifferently	W
The firm incisive languor of her speech	C3
Heard once was heard through battles Lancelot	A
What have you done to day that God should save you	D2
What has he done Gawaine that God should save him	B
I grieve that you two pinks of chivalry	M
Should be so near me in my desolation	Y
And I poor soul alone know nothing of it	R2
What has he done Gawaine	Y
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With all her poise	M
To Gawaine's undeceived urbanity	R2
She was less queen than woman for the nonce	M
And in her eyes there was a flickering	C2
Of a still fear that would not be veiled wholly	M
With any mask of mannered nonchalance	M
What has he done Madam attend your nephew	D2
And learn from him in your incertitude	R2
That this inordinate man Lancelot	R2
This engine of renown this hewer down daily	M
Of potent men by scores in our late warfare	M
Has now inside his head a foreign fever	M
That urges him away to the last edge	D3
Of everything there to efface himself	H2
In ecstasy and so be done with us	M
Hereafter peradventure certain birds	M
Will perch in meditation on his bones	M
Quite as if they were some poor sailor's bones	M
Or felon's jettisoned or fisherman's	M
Or fowler's bones or Mark of Cornwall's bones	M
In fine this flower of men that was our comrade	R2
Shall be for us no more from this day on	Y
Than a much remembered Frenchman far away	M
Magnanimously I leave you now to prize	M
Your final sight of him and leaving you	D2
I leave the sun to shine for him alone	Y
Whiles I grope on to gloom Madam farewell	W
And you contrarious Lancelot farewell	W