Marvoil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKAJCJ JKGLJJJ MGCNKJ GHJA GJJOJP GGJGO GQGG| A poor clerk I 'Arnaut the less' they call me | A |
| And because I have small mind to sit | B |
| Day long long day cooped on a stool | C |
| A jumbling o' figures for Maitre Jacques Polin | D |
| I ha' taken to rambling the South here | E |
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| The Vicomte of Beziers's not such a bad lot | F |
| I made rimes to his lady this three year | G |
| Vers and canzone till that damn'd son of Aragon | H |
| Alfonso the half bald took to hanging | I |
| His helmet at Beziers | J |
| Then came what might come to wit three men and one woman | K |
| Beziers off at Mont Ausier I and his lady | A |
| Singing the stars in the turrets of Beziers | J |
| And one lean Aragonese cursing the seneschal | C |
| To the end that you see friends | J |
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| Aragon cursing in Aragon Beziers busy at Beziers | J |
| Bored to an inch of extinction | K |
| Tibors all tongue and temper at Mont Ausier | G |
| Me in this damn'd inn of Avignon | L |
| Stringing long verse for the Burlatz | J |
| All for one half bald knock knee'd king of the Aragonese | J |
| Alfonso Quattro poke nose | J |
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| And if when I am dead | M |
| They take the trouble to tear out this wall here | G |
| They' know more of Arnaut of Marvoil | C |
| Than half his canzoni say of him | N |
| As for will and testament I leave none | K |
| Save this Vers and canzone to the Countess of Beziers | J |
| In return for the first kiss she gave me ' | - |
| May her eyes and her cheek be fair | G |
| To all men except the King of Aragon | H |
| And may I come'speedily to Beziers | J |
| Whither my desire and my dream have preceded me | A |
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| O hole in the wall here be thou my jongleur | G |
| As ne'er had I other and when the wind blows | J |
| Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers | J |
| For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with this parchment | O |
| So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes | J |
| And so were my mind hollow did she not fill utterly my thought | P |
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| Wherefore O hole in the wall here | G |
| When the wind blows sigh thou for my sorrow | G |
| That I have not the Countess of Beziers | J |
| Close in my arms here | G |
| Even as thou shalt soon have this parchment | O |
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| O hole in the wall here be thou my jongleur | G |
| And though thou sighest my sorrow in the wind | Q |
| Keep yet my secret in thy breast here | G |
| Even as I keep her image in my heart here | G |
Ezra Pound
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