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Lancelot 08 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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For longer war they came and with a fury	A
That only Modred's opportunity	A
Seized in the dark of Britain could have hushed	B
And ended in a night For Lancelot	C
When he was hurried amazed out of his rest	D
Of a gray morning to the scarred gray wall	E
Of Benwick where he slept and fought and saw	F
Not yet the termination of a strife	G
That irked him out of utterance found again	H
Before him a still plain without an army	A
What the mist hid between him and the distance	I
He knew not but a multitude of doubts	J
And hopes awoke in him and one black fear	K
At sight of a truce waving messenger	L
In whose approach he read as by the Light	M
Itself the last of Arthur The man reined	N
His horse outside the gate and Lancelot	C
Above him on the wall with a sick heart	O
Listened Sir Gawaine to Sir Lancelot	C
Sends greeting and this with it in his hand	P
The King has raised the siege and you in France	Q
He counts no longer with his enemies	R
His toil is now for Britain and this war	S
With you Sir Lancelot is an old war	S
If you will have it so Bring the man in	T
Said Lancelot and see that he fares well	U
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All through the sunrise and alone he sat	V
With Gawaine's letter looking toward the sea	A
That flowed somewhere between him and the land	P
That waited Arthur's coming but not his	W
King Arthur's war with me is an old war	S
If I will have it so he pondered slowly	A
And Gawaine's hate for me is an old hate	X
If I will have it so But Gawaine's wound	Y
Is not a wound that heals and there is Modred	Y
Inevitable as ruin after flood	Y
The cloud that has been darkening Arthur's empire	L
May now have burst with Arthur still in France	Q
Many hours away from Britain and a world	Y
Away from me But I read this in my heart	Y
If in the blot of Modred's evil shadow	Y
Conjecture views a cloudier world than is	W
So much the better then for clouds and worlds	Z
And kings Gawaine says nothing yet of this	A2
But when he tells me nothing he tells all	E
Now he is here fordone and left behind	Y
Pursuant of his wish and there are words	B2
That he would say to me Had I not struck him	C2
Twice to the earth unwillingly for my life	G
My best eye then I fear were best at work	D2
On what he has not written As it is	W
If I go seek him now and in good faith	E2
My faith may dig my grave If so then so	Y
If I know only with my eyes and ears	F2
I may as well not know	Y
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Gawaine having scanned	Y
His words and sent them found a way to sleep	G2
And sleeping to forget But he remembered	Y
Quickly enough when he woke up to meet	Y
With his the shining gaze of Lancelot	Y
Above him in a shuttered morning gloom	H2
Seeming at first a darkness that had eyes	I2
Fear for a moment seized him and his heart	Y
Long whipped and driven with fever paused and flickered	Y
As like to fail too soon Fearing to move	J2
He waited fearing to speak he waited fearing	K2
To see too clearly or too much he waited	Y
For what he wondered even the while he knew	L2
It was for Lancelot to say something	K2
And soon he did Gawaine I thought at first	Y
No man was here	M2
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No man was till you came	N2
Sit down and for the love of God who made you	L2
Say nothing to me now of my three brothers	O2
Gareth and Gaheris and Agravaine	L2
Are gone and I am going after them	P2
Of such is our election When you gave	Q2
That ultimate knock on my revengeful head	Y
You did a piece of work	D2
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May God forgive	R2
Lancelot said I did it for my life	G
Not yours	S2
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I know but I was after yours	S2
Had I been Lancelot and you Gawaine	L2
You might be dead	Y
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Had you been Lancelot	Y
And I Gawaine my life had not been yours	S2
Not willingly Your brothers are my debt	Y
That I shall owe to sorrow and to God	Y
For whatsoever payment there may be	A
What I have paid is not a little Gawaine	L2
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Why leave me out A brother more or less	T2
Would hardly be the difference of a shaving	K2
My loose head would assure you saying this	A2
That I have no more venom in me now	L2
On their account than mine which is not much	U2
There was a madness feeding on us all	E
As we fed on the world When the world sees	R
The world will have in turn another madness	V2
And so as I've a glimpse ad infinitum	W2
But I'm not of the seers Merlin it was	X2
Who turned a sort of ominous early glimmer	L
On my profane young life And after that	Y
He falls himself so far that he becomes	Y2
One of our most potential benefits	Z2
Like Vivian or the mortal end of Modred	Y
Why could you not have taken Modred also	Y
And had the five of us You did your best	Y
We know yet he's more poisonously alive	A3
Than ever and he's a brother of a sort	Y
Or half of one and you should not have missed him	C2
A gloomy curiosity was our Modred	Y
From his first intimation of existence	I
God made him as He made the crocodile	B3
To prove He was omnipotent Having done so	Y
And seeing then that Camelot of all places	C3
Ripe for annihilation most required him	C2
He put him there at once and there he grew	L2
And there the King would sit with him for hours	O2
Admiring Modred's growth and all the time	D3
His evil it was that grew the King not seeing	K2
In Modred the Almighty's instrument	Y
Of a world's overthrow You Lancelot	Y
And I have rendered each a contribution	L2
And your last hard attention on my skull	E3
Might once have been a benison on the realm	F3
As I shall be too late when I'm laid out	Y
With a clean shroud on though I'd liefer stay	Y
A while alive with you to see what's coming	K2
But I was not for that I may have been	L2
For something but not that The King my uncle	E3
Has had for all his life so brave a diet	Y
Of miracles that his new fare before him	C2
Of late has ailed him strangely and of all	E
Who loved him once he needs you now the most	Y
Though he would not so much as whisper this	A2
To me or to my shadow He goes alone	L2
To Britain with an army brisk as lead	Y
To battle with his Modred for a throne	L2
That waits I fear for Modred should your France	Q
Not have it otherwise And the Queen's in this	A2
For Modred's game and prey God save the Queen	L2
If not the King I've always liked this world	Y
And I would a deal rather live in it	Y
Than leave it in the middle of all this music	G3
If you are listening give me some cold water	L
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Lancelot seeing by now in dim detail	H3
What little was around him to be seen	L2
Found what he sought and held a cooling cup	I3
To Gawaine who with both hands clutching it	Y
Drank like a child I should have had that first	Y
He said with a loud breath before my tongue	J3
Began to talk What was it saying Modred	Y
All through the growing pains of his ambition	L2
I've watched him and I might have this and that	Y
To say about him if my hours were days	K3
Well if you love the King and hope to save him	C2
Remember his many infirmities of virtue	Y
Considering always what you have in Modred	Y
For ever unique in his iniquity	Y
My truth might have a prejudicial savor	L
To strangers but we are not strangers now	L2
Though I have only one spoiled eye that sees	R
I see in yours we are not strangers now	L2
I tell you as I told you long ago	Y
When the Queen came to put my candles out	Y
With her gold head and her propinquity	Y
That all your doubts that you had then of me	Y
When they were more than various imps and harpies	R
Of your inflamed invention were sick doubts	R
King Arthur was my uncle as he is now	L2
But my Queen aunt who loved him something less	R
Than cats love rain was not my only care	L3
Had all the women who came to Camelot	Y
Been aunts of mine I should have been long since	R
The chilliest of all unwashed eremites	R
In a far land alone For my dead brothers	R
Though I would leave them where I go to them	P2
I read their story as I read my own	L2
And yours and were I given the eyes of God	Y
As I might yet read Modred's For the Queen	L2
May she be safe in London where she's hiding	K2
Now in the Tower For the King you only	Y
And you but hardly may deliver him yet	Y
From that which Merlin's vision long ago	Y
If I made anything of Merlin's words	R
Foretold of Arthur's end And for ourselves	R
And all who died for us or now are dying	K2
Like rats around us of their numerous wounds	R
And ills and evils only this do I know	Y
And this you know The world has paid enough	M3
For Camelot It is the world's turn now	L2
Or so it would be if the world were not	Y
The world Another Camelot ' Bedivere says	R
Another Camelot and another King'	K2
Whatever he means by that With a lineal twist	Y
I might be king myself and then my lord	Y
Time would have sung my reign I say not how	L2
Had I gone on with you and seen with you	Y
Your Gleam and had some ray of it been mine	L2
I might be seeing more and saying less	R
Meanwhile I liked this world and what was on	L2
The Lord's mind when He made it is no matter	L
Be lenient Lancelot I've a light head	Y
Merlin appraised it once when I was young	K2
Telling me then that I should have the world	Y
To play with Well I've had it and played with it	Y
And here I'm with you now where you have sent me	Y
Neatly to bed with a towel over one eye	N3
And we were two of the world's ornaments	R
Praise all you are that Arthur was your King	K2
You might have had no Gleam had I been King	K2
Or had the Queen been like some queens I knew	Y
King Lot my father	L
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Lancelot laid a finger	L
On Gawaine's lips You are too tired for that	Y
Not yet said Gawaine though I may be soon	L2
Think you that I forget this Modred's mother	L
Was mine as well as Modred's When I meet	Y
My mother's ghost what shall I do forgive	R2
When I'm a ghost I'll forgive everything	K2
It makes me cold to think what a ghost knows	R
Put out the bonfire burning in my head	Y
And light one at my feet When the King thought	Y
The Queen was in the flames he called on you	Y
God God ' he said and Lancelot ' I was there	L3
And so I heard him That was a bad morning	K2
For kings and queens and there are to be worse	R
Bedivere had a dream once on a time	D3
Another Camelot and another King '	-
He says when he's awake but when he dreams	R
There are no kings Tell Bedivere some day	Y
That he saw best awake Say to the King	K2
That I saw nothing vaster than my shadow	Y
Until it was too late for me to see	Y
Say that I loved him well but served him ill	O3
If you two meet again Say to the Queen	L2
Say what you may say best Remember me	Y
To Pelleas too and tell him that his lady	Y
Was a vain serpent He was dying once	R
For love of her and had me in his eye	N3
For company along the dusky road	Y
Before me now But Pelleas lived and married	Y
Lord God how much we know What have I done	L2
Why do you scowl Well well so the earth clings	R
To sons of earth and it will soon be clinging	K2
To this one son of earth you deprecate	Y
Closer than heretofore I say too much	U2
Who should be thinking all a man may think	K2
When he has no machine I say too much	U2
Always If I persuade the devil again	L2
That I'm asleep will you espouse the notion	L2
For a small hour or so I might be glad	Y
Not to be here alone He gave his hand	Y
Slowly in hesitation Lancelot shivered	Y
Knowing the chill of it Yes you say too much	U2
He told him trying to smile Now go to sleep	G2
And if you may forget what you forgive	R2
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Lancelot for slow hours that were as long	K2
As leagues were to the King and his worn army	Y
Sat waiting though not long enough to know	Y
From any word of Gawaine who slept on	L2
That he was glad not to be there alone	L2
Peace to your soul Gawaine Lancelot said	Y
And would have closed his eyes But they were closed	Y