Robin Hood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQOORR SSTBOOUVWWXXYYSS ZZSSSSSSOOSSA2A2

to a friendA
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No those days are gone awayB
And their hours are old and grayB
And their minutes buried allC
Under the down trodden pallD
Of the leaves of many yearsE
Many times have winter's shearsF
Frozen North and chilling EastG
Sounded tempests to the feastG
Of the forest's whispering fleecesH
Since men knew nor rent nor leasesH
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No the bugle sounds no moreI
And the twanging bow no moreI
Silent is the ivory shrillJ
Past the heath and up the hillJ
There is no mid forest laughK
Where lone Echo gives the halfK
To some wight amaz'd to hearL
Jesting deep in forest drearL
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On the fairest time of JuneM
You may go with sun or moonM
Or the seven stars to light youN
Or the polar ray to right youN
But you never may beholdO
Little John or Robin boldO
Never one of all the clanP
Thrumming on an empty canP
Some old hunting ditty whileQ
He doth his green way beguileQ
To fair hostess MerrimentO
Down beside the pasture TrentO
For he left the merry taleR
Messenger for spicy aleR
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Gone the merry morris dinS
Gone the song of GamelynS
Gone the tough belted outlawT
Idling in the gren egrave shaweB
All are gone away and pastO
And if Robin should be castO
Sudden from his turfed graveU
And if Marian should haveV
Once again her forest daysW
She would weep and he would crazeW
He would swear for all his oaksX
Fall'n beneath the dockyard strokesX
Have rotted on the briny seasY
She would weep that her wild beesY
Sang not to her strange that honeyS
Can't be got without hard moneyS
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So it is yet let us singZ
Honour to the old bow stringZ
Honour to the bugle hornS
Honour to the woods unshornS
Honour to the Lincoln greenS
Honour to the archer keenS
Honour to tight little JohnS
And the horse he rode uponS
Honour to bold Robin HoodO
Sleeping in the underwoodO
Honour to maid MarianS
And to all the Sherwood clanS
Though their days have hurried byA2
Let us two a burden tryA2

John Keats



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