The Henchman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE FFGG HHII JJCC KKBB LLMM NNOO PPQQ RRSS| My lady walks her morning round | A |
| My lady's page her fleet greyhound | A |
| My lady's hair the fond winds stir | B |
| And all the birds make songs for her | B |
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| Her thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers | C |
| And Rathburn side is gay with flowers | C |
| But ne'er like hers in flower or bird | D |
| Was beauty seen or music heard | D |
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| The distance of the stars is hers | C |
| The least of all her worshippers | C |
| The dust beneath her dainty heel | E |
| She knows not that I see or feel | E |
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| Oh proud and calm she cannot know | F |
| Where'er she goes with her I go | F |
| Oh cold and fair she cannot guess | G |
| I kneel to share her hound's caress | G |
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| Gay knights beside her hunt and hawk | H |
| I rob their ears of her sweet talk | H |
| Her suitors come from east and west | I |
| I steal her smiles from every guest | I |
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| Unheard of her in loving words | J |
| I greet her with the song of birds | J |
| I reach her with her green armed bowers | C |
| I kiss her with the lips of flowers | C |
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| The hound and I are on her trail | K |
| The wind and I uplift her veil | K |
| As if the calm cold moon she were | B |
| And I the tide I follow her | B |
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| As unrebuked as they I share | L |
| The license of the sun and air | L |
| And in a common homage hide | M |
| My worship from her scorn and pride | M |
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| World wide apart and yet so near | N |
| I breathe her charmed atmosphere | N |
| Wherein to her my service brings | O |
| The reverence due to holy things | O |
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| Her maiden pride her haughty name | P |
| My dumb devotion shall not shame | P |
| The love that no return doth crave | Q |
| To knightly levels lifts the slave | Q |
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| No lance have I in joust or fight | R |
| To splinter in my lady's sight | R |
| But at her feet how blest were I | S |
| For any need of hers to die | S |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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