The Norman Baron Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBC DDEF CCEF GHCB FFCB IIIJ BBIJ HGIC KKIC CCBI HGBI BBBL MMBL CCNB IINB EEIE OOIE| et plus profonde ou l'interet et l'avarice parlent moins haut | A |
| que la raison dans les instants de chagrin domestique de | B |
| maladie et de peril de mort les nobles se repentirent de | B |
| posseder des serfs comme d'une chose peu agreable a Dieu qui | B |
| avait cree tous les hommes a son image THIERRY Conquete de | B |
| l'Angleterre | C |
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| In his chamber weak and dying | D |
| Was the Norman baron lying | D |
| Loud without the tempest thundered | E |
| And the castle turret shook | F |
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| In this fight was Death the gainer | C |
| Spite of vassal and retainer | C |
| And the lands his sires had plundered | E |
| Written in the Doomsday Book | F |
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| By his bed a monk was seated | G |
| Who in humble voice repeated | H |
| Many a prayer and pater noster | C |
| From the missal on his knee | B |
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| And amid the tempest pealing | F |
| Sounds of bells came faintly stealing | F |
| Bells that from the neighboring kloster | C |
| Rang for the Nativity | B |
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| In the hall the serf and vassal | I |
| Held that night their Christmas wassail | I |
| Many a carol old and saintly | I |
| Sang the minstrels and the waits | J |
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| And so loud these Saxon gleemen | B |
| Sang to slaves the songs of freemen | B |
| That the storm was heard but faintly | I |
| Knocking at the castle gates | J |
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| Till at length the lays they chanted | H |
| Reached the chamber terror haunted | G |
| Where the monk with accents holy | I |
| Whispered at the baron's ear | C |
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| Tears upon his eyelids glistened | K |
| As he paused awhile and listened | K |
| And the dying baron slowly | I |
| Turned his weary head to hear | C |
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| Wassail for the kingly stranger | C |
| Born and cradled in a manger | C |
| King like David priest like Aaron | B |
| Christ is born to set us free | I |
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| And the lightning showed the sainted | H |
| Figures on the casement painted | G |
| And exclaimed the shuddering baron | B |
| Miserere Domine | I |
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| In that hour of deep contrition | B |
| He beheld with clearer vision | B |
| Through all outward show and fashion | B |
| Justice the Avenger rise | L |
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| All the pomp of earth had vanished | M |
| Falsehood and deceit were banished | M |
| Reason spake more loud than passion | B |
| And the truth wore no disguise | L |
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| Every vassal of his banner | C |
| Every serf born to his manor | C |
| All those wronged and wretched creatures | N |
| By his hand were freed again | B |
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| And as on the sacred missal | I |
| He recorded their dismissal | I |
| Death relaxed his iron features | N |
| And the monk replied Amen | B |
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| Many centuries have been numbered | E |
| Since in death the baron slumbered | E |
| By the convent's sculptured portal | I |
| Mingling with the common dust | E |
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| But the good deed through the ages | O |
| Living in historic pages | O |
| Brighter grows and gleams immortal | I |
| Unconsumed by moth or rust | E |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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