Lord Lovel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC D E F G G HIGII JKG JKL MKJK INFO JKP PNFN MQRQ STFT UTVW| 'It is silly sooth | A |
| And dallies with the innocence of love | B |
| Like the old age ' | C |
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| Twelfth Night II | D |
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| The Text This ballad concluding a small class of three Lord Thomas and Fair Annet and Fair Margaret and Sweet William being the other two is distinguished by the fact that the lady dies of hope deferred It is a foolish ballad at the opposite pole to Lord Thomas and Fair Annet and is pre eminently one of the class meant only to be sung with an effective burden The text given here therefore is that of a broadside of the year | E |
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| The Story in outline is extremely popular in German and Scandinavian literature Of the former the commonest is Der Ritter und die Maid also found north of Germany twenty six different versions in all in some of which lilies spring from the grave In a Swedish ballad a linden tree grows out of their bodies in Danish ballads roses lilies or lindens This conclusion a commonplace in folk song occurs also in a class of Romaic ballads where a clump of reeds rises from one of the lovers and a cypress or lemon tree from the other which bend to each other and mingle their leaves whenever the wind blows Classical readers will recall the tale of Philemon and Baucis | F |
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| Various other versions of this ballad are named Lady Ouncebell Lord Lavel Lord Travell and Lord Revel | G |
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| LORD LOVEL | G |
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| Lord Lovel he stood at his castle gate | H |
| Combing his milk white steed | I |
| When up came Lady Nancy Belle | G |
| To wish her lover good speed speed | I |
| To wish her lover good speed | I |
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| 'Where are you going Lord Lovel ' she said | J |
| 'Oh where are you going ' said she | K |
| 'I'm going my Lady Nancy Belle | G |
| Strange countries for to see ' | - |
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| 'When will you be back Lord Lovel ' she said | J |
| 'Oh when will you come back ' said she | K |
| 'In a year or two or three at the most | L |
| I'll return to my fair Nancy ' | - |
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| But he had not been gone a year and a day | M |
| Strange countries for to see | K |
| When languishing thoughts came into his head | J |
| Lady Nancy Belle he would go see | K |
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| So he rode and he rode on his milk white steed | I |
| Till he came to London town | N |
| And there he heard St Pancras' bells | F |
| And the people all mourning round | O |
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| 'Oh what is the matter ' Lord Lovel he said | J |
| 'Oh what is the matter ' said he | K |
| 'A lord's lady is dead ' a woman replied | P |
| 'And some call her Lady Nancy ' | - |
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| So he ordered the grave to be opened wide | P |
| And the shroud he turned down | N |
| And there he kissed her clay cold lips | F |
| Till the tears came trickling down | N |
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| Lady Nancy she died as it might be today | M |
| Lord Lovel he died as tomorrow | Q |
| Lady Nancy she died out of pure pure grief | R |
| Lord Lovel he died out of sorrow | Q |
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| Lady Nancy was laid in St Pancras' Church | S |
| Lord Lovel was laid in the choir | T |
| And out of her bosom there grew a red rose | F |
| And out of her lover's a briar | T |
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| They grew and they grew to the church steeple too | U |
| And then they could grow no higher | T |
| So there they entwined in a true lovers' knot | V |
| For all lovers true to admire | W |
Frank Sidgwick
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