To The Genius Of Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJFF KKCCLMCCNN| Oh thou who in my early youth | A |
| When fancy wore the garb of truth | A |
| Wert wont to win my infant feet | B |
| To some retired deep fabled seat | B |
| Where by the brooklet's secret tide | C |
| The midnight ghost was known to glide | C |
| Or lay me in some lonely glade | D |
| In native Sherwood's forest shade | D |
| Where Robin Hood the outlaw bold | E |
| Was wont his sylvan courts to hold | E |
| And there as musing deep I lay | F |
| Would steal my little soul away | F |
| And all my pictures represent | G |
| Of siege and solemn tournament | H |
| Or bear me to the magic scene | I |
| Where clad in greaves and gabardine | I |
| The warrior knight of chivalry | J |
| Made many a fierce enchanter flee | J |
| And bore the high born dame away | F |
| Long held the fell magician's prey | F |
| Or oft would tell the shuddering tale | K |
| Of murders and of goblins pale | K |
| Haunting the guilty baron's side | C |
| Whose floors with secret blood were dyed | C |
| Which o'er the vaulted corridor | L |
| On stormy nights was heard to roar | M |
| By old domestic waken'd wide | C |
| By the angry winds that chide | C |
| Or else the mystic tale would tell | N |
| Of Greensleeve or of Blue Beard fell | N |
Henry Kirk White
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