La Belle Dame Sans Merci (original Version ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IJKJ LDMD NOBO PGLF LFQF RLLL LSQ TLFL FBCB| Oh what can ail thee knight at arms | A |
| Alone and palely loitering | B |
| The sedge has withered from the lake | C |
| And no birds sing | B |
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| Oh what can ail thee knight at arms | A |
| So haggard and so woe begone | D |
| The squirrel's granary is full | E |
| And the harvest's done | D |
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| I see a lily on thy brow | F |
| With anguish moist and fever dew | G |
| And on thy cheeks a fading rose | H |
| Fast withereth too | G |
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| I met a lady in the meads | I |
| Full beautiful a faery's child | J |
| Her hair was long her foot was light | K |
| And her eyes were wild | J |
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| I made a garland for her head | L |
| And bracelets too and fragrant zone | D |
| She looked at me as she did love | M |
| And made sweet moan | D |
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| I set her on my pacing steed | N |
| And nothing else saw all day long | O |
| For sidelong would she bend and sing | B |
| A faery's song | O |
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| She found me roots of relish sweet | P |
| And honey wild and manna dew | G |
| And sure in language strange she said | L |
| 'I love thee true' | F |
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| She took me to her elfin grot | L |
| And there she wept and sighed full sore | F |
| And there I shut her wild wild eyes | Q |
| With kisses four | F |
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| And there she lulled me asleep | R |
| And there I dreamed Ah woe betide | L |
| The latest dream I ever dreamt | L |
| On the cold hill side | L |
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| I saw pale kings and princes too | L |
| Pale warriors death pale were they all | S |
| They cried 'La Belle Dame sans Merci | Q |
| Hath thee in thrall ' | - |
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| I saw their starved lips in the gloam | T |
| With horrid warning gaped wide | L |
| And I awoke and found me here | F |
| On the cold hill's side | L |
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| And this is why I sojourn here | F |
| Alone and palely loitering | B |
| Though the sedge is withered from the lake | C |
| And no birds sing | B |
John Keats
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