The Duel.[583] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEEFFGHFF IJIJIJKK LJLJMJMJJMJJNJJOFFJJ PJQRSS LTLUJJJJ V| A | |
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| 'Tis fifty years and yet their fray | B |
| To us might seem but yesterday | B |
| Tis fifty years and three to boot | C |
| Since hand to hand and foot to foot | D |
| And heart to heart and sword to sword | E |
| One of our Ancestors was gored | E |
| I've seen the sword that slew him he | F |
| The slain stood in a like degree | F |
| To thee as he the Slayer stood | G |
| Oh had it been but other blood | H |
| In kin and Chieftainship to me | F |
| Thus came the Heritage to thee | F |
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| To me the Lands of him who slew | I |
| Came through a line of yore renowned | J |
| For I can boast a race as true | I |
| To Monarchs crowned and some discrowned | J |
| As ever Britain's Annals knew | I |
| For the first Conqueror gave us Ground | J |
| And the last Conquered owned the line | K |
| Which was my mother's and is mine | K |
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| I loved thee I will not say how | L |
| Since things like these are best forgot | J |
| Perhaps thou may'st imagine now | L |
| Who loved thee and who loved thee not | J |
| And thou wert wedded to another | M |
| And I at last another wedded | J |
| I am a father thou a mother | M |
| To Strangers vowed with strangers bedded | J |
| For land to land even blood to blood | J |
| Since leagued of yore our fathers were | M |
| Our manors and our birthright stood | J |
| And not unequal had I wooed | J |
| If to have wooed thee I could dare | N |
| But this I never dared even yet | J |
| When naught is left but to forget | J |
| I feel that I could only love | O |
| To sue was never meant for me | F |
| And least of all to sue to thee | F |
| For many a bar and many a feud | J |
| Though never told well understood | J |
| Rolled like a river wide between | P |
| And then there was the Curse of blood | J |
| Which even my Heart's can not remove | Q |
| Alas how many things have been | R |
| Since we were friends for I alone | S |
| Feel more for thee than can be shown | S |
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| How many things I loved thee thou | L |
| Loved'st me not another was | T |
| The Idol of thy virgin vow | L |
| And I was what I am Alas | U |
| And what he is and what thou art | J |
| And what we were is like the rest | J |
| We must endure it as a test | J |
| And old Ordeal of the Heart | J |
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| Venice Dec | V |
George Gordon Byron
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