The Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDECD FGFFG HIHHI JKJJK LMLLNAll through that summer at ease we lay | A |
And daily from the turret wall | B |
We watched the mowers in the hay | A |
And the enemy half a mile away | A |
They seemed no threat to us at all | B |
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For what we thought had we to fear | C |
With our arms and provender load on load | D |
Our towering battlements tier on tier | E |
And friendly allies drawing near | C |
On every leafy summer road | D |
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Our gates were strong our walls were thick | F |
So smooth and high no man could win | G |
A foothold there no clever trick | F |
Could take us have us dead or quick | F |
Only a bird could have got in | G |
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What could they offer us for bait | H |
Our captain was brave and we were true | I |
There was a little private gate | H |
A little wicked wicket gate | H |
The wizened warder let them through | I |
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Oh then our maze of tunneled stone | J |
Grew thin and treacherous as air | K |
The cause was lost without a groan | J |
The famous citadel overthrown | J |
And all its secret galleries bare | K |
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How can this shameful tale be told | L |
I will maintain until my death | M |
We could do nothing being sold | L |
Our only enemy was gold | L |
And we had no arms to fight it with | N |
Edwin Muir
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