Planh For The Young English King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFB BBBGEBCB BHIJEGCB BKLIEIBB BGIBEBBB| If all the grief and woe and bitterness | A |
| All dolour ill and every evil chance | B |
| That ever came upon this grieving world | C |
| Were set together they would seem but light | D |
| Against the death of the young English King | E |
| Worth lieth riven and Youth dolorous | B |
| The world overshadowed soiled and overcast | F |
| Void of all joy and full of ire and sadness | B |
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| Grieving and sad and full of bitterness | B |
| Are left in teen the liegemen courteous | B |
| The joglars supple and the troubadours | B |
| O'er much hath ta'en Sir Death that deadly warrior | G |
| In taking from them the young English King | E |
| Who made the freest hand seem covetous | B |
| 'Las Never was nor will be in this world | C |
| The balance for this loss in ire and sadness | B |
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| O skilful Death and full of bitterness | B |
| Well mayst thou boast that thou the best chevalier | H |
| That any folk e'er had hast from us taken | I |
| Sith nothing is that unto worth pertaineth | J |
| But had its life in the young English King | E |
| And better were it should God grant his pleasure | G |
| That he should live than many a living dastard | C |
| That doth but wound the good with ire and sadness | B |
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| From this faint world how full of bitterness | B |
| Love takes his way and holds his joy deceitful | K |
| Sith no thing is but turneth unto anguish | L |
| And each to day Vails less than yestere'en | I |
| Let each man visage this young English King | E |
| That was most valiant 'mid all worthiest men | I |
| Gone is his body fine and amorous | B |
| Whence have we grief discord and deepest sadness | B |
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| Him whom it pleased for our great bitterness | B |
| To come to earth to draw us from misventure | G |
| Who drank of death for our salvacioun | I |
| Him do we pray as to a Lord most righteous | B |
| And humble eke that the young English King | E |
| He please to pardon as true pardon is | B |
| And bid go in with honoured companions | B |
| There where there is no grief nor shall be sadness | B |
Ezra Pound
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