Coronation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GH IJH CFCKL MNM ABAB OPOO QIQI| At the king's gate the subtle noon | A |
| Wove filmy yellow nets of sun | B |
| Into the drowsy snare too soon | A |
| The guards fell one by one | B |
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| Through the king's gate unquestioned then | C |
| A beggar went and laughed 'This brings | D |
| Me chance at last to see if men | C |
| Fare better being kings ' | - |
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| The king sat bowed beneath his crown | E |
| Propping his face with listless hand | F |
| Watching the hour glass sifting down | E |
| Too slow its shining sand | F |
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| 'Poor man what wouldst thou have of me ' | - |
| The beggar turned and pitying | G |
| Replied like one in dream 'Of thee | H |
| Nothing I want the king ' | - |
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| Uprose the king and from his head | I |
| Shook off the crown and threw it by | J |
| 'O man thou must have known ' said he | H |
| 'A greater king than I ' | - |
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| Through all the gates unquestioned then | C |
| Went king and beggar hand in hand | F |
| Whispered the king 'Shall I know when | C |
| Before | K |
| his | L |
| throne I stand ' | - |
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| The beggar laughed Free winds in haste | M |
| Were wiping from the king's hot brow | N |
| The crimson lines the crown had traced | M |
| 'This is his presence now ' | - |
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| At the king's gate the crafty noon | A |
| Unwove its yellow nets of sun | B |
| Out of their sleep in terror soon | A |
| The guards waked one by one | B |
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| 'Ho here Ho There Has no man seen | O |
| The king ' The cry ran to and fro | P |
| Beggar and king they laughed I ween | O |
| The laugh that free men know | O |
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| On the king's gate the moss grew gray | Q |
| The king came not They called him dead | I |
| And made his eldest son one day | Q |
| Slave in his father's stead | I |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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