The Wife Of Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG CHCH IJIJ KLKL| Low and brown barns thatched and repatched and tattered | A |
| Where I had seven sons until to day | B |
| A little hill of hay your spur has scattered | A |
| This is not Paris You have lost your way | B |
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| You staring at your sword to find it brittle | C |
| Surprised at the surprise that was your plan | D |
| Who shaking and breaking barriers not a little | C |
| Find never more the death door of Sedan | D |
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| Must I for more than carnage call you claimant | E |
| Paying you a penny for each son you slay | B |
| Man the whole globe in gold were no repayment | E |
| For what you have lost And how shall I repay | B |
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| What is the price of that red spark that caught me | F |
| From a kind farm that never had a name | G |
| What is the price of that dead man they brought me | F |
| For other dead men do not look the same | G |
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| How should I pay for one poor graven steeple | C |
| Whereon you shattered what you shall not know | H |
| How should I pay you miserable people | C |
| How should I pay you everything you owe | H |
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| Unhappy can I give you back your honour | I |
| Though I forgave would any man forget | J |
| While all the great green land has trampled on her | I |
| The treason and terror of the night we met | J |
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| Not any more in vengeance or in pardon | K |
| An old wife bargains for a bean that's hers | L |
| You have no word to break no heart to harden | K |
| Ride on and prosper You have lost your spurs | L |
G. K. Chesterton
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