The Wife Of Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG CHCH IJIJ KLKLLow 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 |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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