Song Of The Troubadour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABBBBB CBCBBB DBDBBB EBFBBB| In Imitation of the Lays of the Olden Time | A |
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| Come list to the lay of the olden time | A |
| A troubadour sang on a moonlit stream | B |
| The scene is laid in a foreign clime | B |
| A century back and love is the theme | B |
| Love was the theme of the troubadour's rhyme | B |
| Of lady and lord of the olden time | B |
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| At an iron barred turret a lady fair | C |
| Knelt at the close of the vesper chime | B |
| Her beads she numbered in silent prayer | C |
| For one far away whom to love was her crime | B |
| Love sang the troubadour love was a crime | B |
| When fathers were stern in the olden time | B |
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| The warder had spurned from the castle gate | D |
| The minstrel who wooed her in flowing rhyme | B |
| He came back from battle in regal estate | D |
| The bard was a prince of the olden time | B |
| Love sand the troubadour listened to rhyme | B |
| And welcomed the bard of the olden time | B |
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| The prince in disguise had the lady sought | E |
| To chapel they hied in their rosy prime | B |
| Thus worth won a jewel that wealth never bought | F |
| A fair lady's heart of the olden time | B |
| The moral the troubadour sang of my rhyme | B |
| Was well understood in the olden time | B |
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