The Song Of Courtesy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDDEEDFFF A GGHIIIEEJFFF A KKLMMNEEMFFF OOGPPPFFPFFF| I | A |
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| When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal bed | B |
| By Arthur's knights in scorn God sped | B |
| How think you he felt | C |
| O the bride within | D |
| Was yellow and dry as a snake's old skin | D |
| Loathly as sin | D |
| Scarcely faceable | E |
| Quite unembraceable | E |
| With a hog's bristle on a hag's chin | D |
| Gentle Gawain felt as should we | F |
| Little of Love's soft fire knew he | F |
| But he was the Knight of Courtesy | F |
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| II | A |
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| When that evil lady he lay beside | G |
| Bade him turn to greet his bride | G |
| What think you he did | H |
| O to spare her pain | I |
| And let not his loathing her loathliness vain | I |
| Mirror too plain | I |
| Sadly sighingly | E |
| Almost dyingly | E |
| Turned he and kissed her once and again | J |
| Like Sir Gawain gentles should we | F |
| SILENT ALL But for pattern agree | F |
| There's none like the Knight of Courtesy | F |
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| III | A |
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| Sir Gawain sprang up amid laces and curls | K |
| Kisses are not wasted pearls | K |
| What clung in his arms | L |
| O a maiden flower | M |
| Burning with blushes the sweet bride bower | M |
| Beauty her dower | N |
| Breathing perfumingly | E |
| Shall I live bloomingly | E |
| Said she by day or the bridal hour | M |
| Thereat he clasped her and whispered he | F |
| Thine rare bride the choice shall be | F |
| Said she Twice blest is Courtesy | F |
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| IV | - |
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| Of gentle Sir Gawain they had no sport | O |
| When it was morning in Arthur's court | O |
| What think you they cried | G |
| Now life and eyes | P |
| This bride is the very Saint's dream of a prize | P |
| Fresh from the skies | P |
| See ye not Courtesy | F |
| Is the true Alchemy | F |
| Turning to gold all it touches and tries | P |
| Like the true knight so may we | F |
| Make the basest that there be | F |
| Beautiful by Courtesy | F |
George Meredith
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