The King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCC DEFEGGGE CHCH IIIH JCJCEEEC JKJKCC L| They rode right out of the morning sun | A |
| A glimmering glittering cavalcade | B |
| Of knights and ladies and every one | A |
| In princely sheen arrayed | B |
| And the king of them all O he rode ahead | C |
| With a helmet of gold and a plume of red | C |
| That spurted about in the breeze and bled | C |
| In the bloom of the everglade | C |
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| And they rode high over the dewy lawn | D |
| With brave glad banners of every hue | E |
| That rolled in ripples as they rode on | F |
| In splendor two and two | E |
| And the tinkling links of the golden reins | G |
| Of the steeds they rode rang such refrains | G |
| As the castanets in a dream of Spain's | G |
| Intensest gold and blue | E |
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| And they rode and rode and the steeds they neighed | C |
| And pranced and the sun on their glossy hides | H |
| Flickered and lightened and glanced and played | C |
| Like the moon on rippling tides | H |
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| And their manes were silken and thick and strong | I |
| And their tails were flossy and fetlock long | I |
| And jostled in time to the teeming throng | I |
| And their knightly song besides | H |
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| Clank of scabbard and jingle of spur | J |
| And the fluttering sash of the queen went wild | C |
| In the wind and the proud king glanced at her | J |
| As one at a wilful child | C |
| And as knight and lady away they flew | E |
| And the banners flapped and the falcon too | E |
| And the lances flashed and the bugle blew | E |
| He kissed his hand and smiled | C |
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| And then like a slanting sunlit shower | J |
| The pageant glittered across the plain | K |
| And the turf spun back and the wildweed flower | J |
| Was only a crimson stain | K |
| And a dreamer's eyes they are downward cast | C |
| As he blends these words with the wailing blast | C |
| 'It is the King of the Year rides past ' | - |
| And Autumn is here again | L |
James Whitcomb Riley
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