Wesselenyi: A Hungarian Tale Poem Rhyme Scheme

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When madly raged religious war	A
O'er all the Magyar land	B
And royal archer and hussar	C
Met foemen hand to hand	B
A princess fair in castle strong	D
The royal troops defied	E
And bravely held her fortress long	D
Though help was all denied	E
	-
Princess Maria was her name	F
Brave daughter nobly sired	E
She caught her father's trusty sword	E
When bleeding he expired	E
And bravely rallied warders all	G
To meet the storming foe	H
And hurled them from the rampart wall	G
Upon the crags below	H
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Prince Casimir her father built	E
Murana high and wide	E
It sat among the mountain cliffs	I
The Magyars' boast and pride	E
Bold Wesselenyi stalwart knight	E
Young famed and wondrous fair	J
With a thousand men besieged the height	E
And led the bravest there	J
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And long he tried the arts of war	A
To take that castle hold	E
Till many a proud and plumed hussar	C
Was lying stiff and cold	E
And still the frowning castle stood	E
A grim unbroken wall	G
Like some lone rock in stormy seas	K
That braves the billows all	G
	-
Bold Wesselenyi's cheeks grew thin	L
A solemn oath he sware	C
That if he failed the prize to win	L
His bones should molder there	C
Two toilsome months had worn away	M
Two hundred men were slain	N
His bold assaults were baffled still	O
And all his arts were vain	N
	-
But love is mightier than the sword	E
He clad him in disguise	P
In the dress of an inferior lord	E
To win the noble prize	P
He bade his armed men to wait	E
To cease the battle blare	C
And sought alone the castle gate	E
To hold a parley there	C
	-
Aloft a flag of truce he bore	C
Her warders bade him pass	Q
Within he met the princess fair	C
All clad in steel and brass	Q
Her bright black eyes and queenly art	E
Sweet lips and raven hair	C
Smote bold young Wesselenyi's heart	E
While he held parley there	C
	-
Cunning he talked of great reward	E
And royal favor too	E
If she would yield her father's sword	E
She sternly answered No	H
But even while they parleyed there	C
Maria's lustrous eyes	P
Looked tenderly and lovingly	R
On the chieftain in disguise	P
	-
Go tell your gallant chief she said	E
To keep his paltry pelf	H
The knight who would my castle win	L
Must dare to come himself	H
And forth she sternly bade him go	H
But followed with her eyes	P
I ween she knew the brave knight well	S
Through all his fair disguise	P
	-
But when had dawned another morn	T
He bade his bugleman	T
To sound again the parley horn	T
Ere yet the fray began	T
And forth he sent a trusty knight	E
To seek the castle gate	E
And to the princess privately	R
His message to relate	E
	-
That he it was who in disguise	P
Her warders bade to pass	Q
And while he parleyed there her eyes	P
Had pierced his plates of brass	Q
His heart he offered and his hand	E
And pledged a signet ring	U
If she would yield her brave command	E
Unto his gracious king	U
	-
Go tell your chief Maria cried	E
Audacious as he is	V
If he be worthy such a bride	E
My castle and hand are his	V
But he should know that lady fair	C
By faint heart ne'er was won	T
So let your gallant chieftain sir	C
Come undisguised alone	T
	-
And he may see in the northern tower	C
Over yonder precipice	W
A lone dim light at the midnight hour	C
Shine down the dark abyss	X
And over the chasm's dungeon gloom	Y
Shall a slender ladder hang	Z
And if alone he dare to come	A2
Unarmed without a clang	Z
	-
More of his suit your chief shall hear	C
Perhaps may win the prize	P
Tell him the way is hedged with fear	C
One misstep and he dies	P
Nor will I pledge him safe retreat	E
From out yon guarded tower	C
My watchful warders all to cheat	E
May be beyond my power	C
	-
At midnight's dark and silent hour	C
The tall and gallant knight	E
Sought on the cliff the northern tower	C
And saw the promised light	E
With toil he climbed the cragged cliff	H
And there the ladder found	E
And o'er the yawning gulf he clomb	A2
The ladder round by round	E
	-
And as he climbed the ladder bent	E
Above the yawning deep	B2
But bravely to the port he went	E
And entered at a leap	B2
Full twenty warders thronged the hall	G
Each with his blade in hand	E
They caught the brave knight like a thrall	G
And bound him foot and hand	E
	-
They tied him fast to an iron ring	U
At Maria's stern command	E
And then they jeered God save the king	U
And all his knightly band	E
They bound a bandage o'er his eyes	P
Then the haughty princess said	E
Audacious knight I hold a prize	P
My castle or your head	E
	-
Now mark desert the king's command	E
And join your sword with mine	T
And thine shall be my heart and hand	E
This castle shall be thine	T
I grant one hour for thee to choose	C2
My bold and gallant lord	E
And if my offer you refuse	C2
You perish by the sword	E
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He spoke not a word but his face was pale	D2
And he prayed a silent prayer	C
But his heart was oak and it could not quail	D2
And a secret oath he sware	C
And grim stood the warders armed all	G
In the torches' flicker and flare	C
As they watch for an hour in the gloomy hall	G
The brave knight pinioned there	C
	-
The short the flying hour is past	E
The warders have bared his breast	E
The bugler bugles a doleful blast	E
Will the pale knight stand the test	E
He has made his choice he will do his part	E
He has sworn and he cannot lie	E2
And he cries with the sword at his beating heart	E
Betray nay better to die	E2
	-
Suddenly fell from his blue eyes	P
The silken blinding bands	F2
And while he looked in sheer surprise	P
They freed his feet and hands	F2
I give thee my castle Maria cried	E
And I give thee my heart and hand	E
And Maria will be the proudest bride	E
In all this Magyar land	E
	-
Grant heaven that thou be true to me	A2
As thou art to the king	U
And I'll bless the day I gave to thee	A2
My castle for a ring	U
The red blood flushed to the brave knight's face	G2
As he looked on the lady fair	C
He sprang to her arms in a fond embrace	G2
And he married her then and there	C
	-
So the little blind elf with his feathered shaft	E
Did more than the sword could do	E
For he conquered and took with his magical craft	E
Her heart and her castle too	E