Lancelot 04 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Lancelot 04 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Not having viewed Carleon or Carlisle	A
The King came home to Camelot after midnight	B
Feigning an ill not feigned and his return	C
Brought Bedivere and after him Gawaine	C
To the King's inner chamber where they waited	D
Through the grim light of dawn Sir Bedivere	E
By nature stern to see though not so bleak	F
Within as to be frozen out of mercy	G
Sat with arms crossed and with his head weighed low	H
In heavy meditation Once or twice	I
His eyes were lifted for a careful glimpse	J
Of Gawaine at the window where he stood	K
Twisting his fingers feverishly behind him	L
Like one distinguishing indignantly	G
For swift eclipse and for offence not his	M
The towers and roofs and the sad majesty	G
Of Camelot in the dawn for the last time	N
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Sir Bedivere at last with a long sigh	O
That said less of his pain than of his pity	G
Addressed the younger knight who turned and heard	P
His elder but with no large eagerness	Q
So it has come Gawaine and we are here	E
I find when I see backward something farther	E
By grace of time than you are given to see	G
Though you past any doubt see much that I	O
See not I find that what the colder speech	R
Of reason most repeated says to us	Q
Of what is in a way to come to us	Q
Is like enough to come And we are here	E
Before the unseeing sun is here to mock us	Q
Or the King here to prove us we are here	E
We are the two it seems that are to make	S
Of words and of our presences a veil	T
Between him and the sight of what he does	U
Little have I to say that I may tell him	L
For what I know is what the city knows	V
Not what it says for it says everything	W
The city says the first of all who met	X
The sword of Lancelot was Colgrevance	V
Who fell dead while he wept a brave machine	C
Cranked only for the rudiments of war	E
But some of us are born to serve and shift	Y
And that's not well The city says also	V
That you and Lancelot were in the garden	C
Before the sun went down	C
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Yes Gawaine groaned	Z
Yes we were there together in the garden	C
Before the sun went down and I conceive	A2
A place among the possibilities	V
For me with other causes unforeseen	C
Of what may shake down soon to grief and ashes	V
This kingdom and this empire Bedivere	E
Could I have given a decent seriousness	V
To Lancelot while he said things to me	G
That pulled his heart half out of him by the roots	V
And left him I see now half sick with pity	G
For my poor uselessness to serve a need	B2
That I had never known we might be now	C
Asleep and easy in our beds at home	C2
And we might hear no murmurs after sunrise	V
Of what we are to hear A few right words	V
Of mine if said well might have been enough	D2
That shall I never know I shall know only	G
That it was I who laughed at Lancelot	E2
When he said what lay heaviest on his heart	F2
By now he might be far away from here	E
And farther from the world But the Queen came	G2
The Queen came and I left them there together	E
And I laughed as I left them After dark	H2
I met with Modred and said what I could	K
When I had heard him to discourage him	L
His mother was my mother I told Bors	V
And he told Lancelot though as for that	I2
My story would have been the same as his	V
And would have had the same acknowledgement	J2
Thanks but no matter' or to that effect	K2
The Queen of course had fished him for his word	P
And had it on the hook when she went home	C2
And after that an army of red devils	V
Could not have held the man away from her	E
And I'm to live as long as I'm to wonder	E
What might have been had I not been myself	L2
I heard him and I laughed Then the Queen came	G2
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Recriminations are not remedies	V
Gawaine and though you cast them at yourself	L2
And hurt yourself you cannot end or swerve	M2
The flowing of these minutes that leave hours	V
Behind us as we leave our faded selves	V
And yesterdays The surest visioned of us	V
Are creatures of our dreams and inferences	V
And though it look to us a few go far	E
For seeing far the fewest and the farthest	N2
Of all we know go not beyond themselves	V
No Gawaine you are not the cause of this	V
And I have many doubts if all you said	O2
Or in your lightness may have left unsaid	O2
Would have unarmed the Queen The Queen was there	E
Gawaine looked up and then looked down again	C
Good God if I had only said said something	W
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Say nothing now Gawaine Bedivere sighed	P2
And shook his head Morning is not in the west	Q2
The sun is rising and the King is coming	W
Now you may hear him in the corridor	E
Like a sick landlord shuffling to the light	B
For one last look out on his mortgaged hills	V
But hills and valleys are not what he sees	V
He sees with us the fire the sign the law	R2
The King that is the father of the law	R2
Is weaker than his child except he slay it	S2
Not long ago Gawaine I had a dream	T2
Of a sword over kings and of a world	U2
Without them Dreams dreams Hush Gawaine	C
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King Arthur	E
Came slowly on till in the darkened entrance	V
He stared and shivered like a sleep walker	E
Brought suddenly awake where a cliff's edge	V2
Is all he sees between another step	W2
And his annihilation Bedivere rose	V
And Gawaine rose and with instinctive arms	V
They partly guided partly carried him	L
To the King's chair	E
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I thank you gentlemen	C
Though I am not so shaken I dare say	V
As you would have me This is not the hour	E
When kings who do not sleep are at their best	Q2
And had I slept this night that now is over	E
No man should ever call me King again	C
He pulled his heavy robe around him closer	E
And laid upon his forehead a cold hand	X2
That came down warm and wet You Bedivere	E
And you Gawaine are shaken with events	V
Incredible yesterday but kings are men	C
Take off their crowns and tear away their colors	V
And let them see with my eyes what I see	G
Yes they are men indeed If there's a slave	Y2
In Britain with a reptile at his heart	F2
Like mine that with his claws of ice and fire	E
Tears out of me the fevered roots of mercy	G
Find him and I will make a king of him	L
And then so that his happiness may swell	Z2
Tenfold I'll sift the beauty of all courts	V
And capitals to fetch the fairest woman	C
That evil has in hiding after that	I2
That he may know the sovran one man living	W
To be his friend I'll prune all chivalry	G
To one sure knight In this wise our new king	W
Will have his queen to love as I had mine	C
His friend that he may trust as I had mine	C
And he will be as gay if all goes well	Z2
As I have been as fortunate in his love	A3
And in his friend as fortunate as I am	B3
And what am I And what are you you two	C3
If you are men why don't you say I'm dreaming	W
I know men when I see them I know daylight	B
And I see now the gray shine of our dreams	V
I tell you I'm asleep and in my bed	O2
But no no I remember You are men	C
You are no dreams but God God if you were	E
If I were strong enough to make you vanish	D3
And have you back again with yesterday	V
Before I lent myself to that false hunting	W
Which yet may stalk the hours of many more	E
Than Lancelot's unhappy twelve who died	P2
With a misguided Colgrevance to lead them	E3
And Agravaine to follow and fall next	F3
Then should I know at last that I was King	W
And I should then be King But kings are men	C
And I have gleaned enough these two years gone	C
To know that queens are women Merlin told me	G
The love that never was ' Two years ago	V
He told me that The love that never was '	-
I saw but I saw nothing Like the bird	P
That hides his head I made myself see nothing	W
But yesterday I saw and I saw fire	E
I think I saw it first in Modred's eyes	V
Yet he said only truth and fire is right	B
It is it must be fire The law says fire	E
And I the King who made the law say fire	E
What have I done what folly have I said	O2
Since I came here of dreaming Dreaming Ha	G3
I wonder if the Queen and Lancelot	E2
Are dreaming Lancelot Have they found him yet	X
He slashed a way into the outer night	B
Somewhere with Bors We'll have him here anon	C
And we shall feed him also to the fire	E
There are too many faggots lying cold	H3
That might as well be cleansing for our good	K
A few deferred infections of our state	I3
That honor should no longer look upon	C
Thank heaven I man my drifting wits again	C
Gawaine your brothers Gareth and Gaheris	V
Are by our royal order there to see	V
And to report They went unwillingly	V
For they are new to law and young to justice	V
But what they are to see will harden them	E3
With wholesome admiration of a realm	J3
Where treason's end is ashes Ashes Ashes	V
Now this is better I am King again	C
Forget I pray my drowsy temporizing	W
For I was not then properly awake	S
What Hark Whose crass insanity is that	I2
If I be King go find the fellow and hang him	L
Who beats into the morning on that bell	Z2
Before there is a morning This is dawn	C
What Bedivere Gawaine You shake your heads	V
I tell you this is dawn What have I done	C
What have I said so lately that I flinch	K3
To think on What have I sent those boys to see	V
I'll put clouts on my eyes and I'll not see it	S2
Her face and hands and little small white feet	L3
And all her shining hair and her warm body	V
No for the love of God no it's alive	M3
She's all alive and they are burning her	E
The Queen the love the love that never was	V
Gawaine Bedivere Gawaine Where is Gawaine	C
Is he there in the shadow Is he dead	O2
Are we all dead Are we in hell Gawaine	C
I cannot see her now in the smoke Her eyes	V
Are what I see and her white body is burning	W
She never did enough to make me see her	E
Like that to make her look at me like that	I2
There's not room in the world for so much evil	N3
As I see clamoring in her poor white face	V
For pity Pity her God God Lancelot	E2