The Emperor's Glove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBC DEDDE FAFFA FGFFG HFHHF| Combien faudrait il de peaux d'Espagne pour faire un gant de cette grandeur A play upon the words gant a glove and Gand the French for Ghent | A |
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| On St Baron's tower commanding | B |
| Half of Flanders his domain | C |
| Charles the Emperor once was standing | B |
| While beneath him on the landing | B |
| Stood Duke Alva and his train | C |
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| Like a print in books of fables | D |
| Or a model made for show | E |
| With its pointed roofs and gables | D |
| Dormer windows scrolls and labels | D |
| Lay the city far below | E |
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| Through its squares and streets and alleys | F |
| Poured the populace of Ghent | A |
| As a routed army rallies | F |
| Or as rivers run through valleys | F |
| Hurrying to their homes they went | A |
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| Nest of Lutheran misbelievers | F |
| Cried Duke Alva as he gazed | G |
| Haunt of traitors and deceivers | F |
| Stronghold of insurgent weavers | F |
| Let it to the ground be razed | G |
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| On the Emperor's cap the feather | H |
| Nods as laughing he replies | F |
| How many skins of Spanish leather | H |
| Think you would if stitched together | H |
| Make a glove of such a size | F |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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