Robin Hood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDEFGGHH IIJJKKLL MMNNOOPPQQOORR SSTBOOUVWWXXYYSS ZZSSSSSSOOSSA2A2| to a friend | A |
| - | |
| No those days are gone away | B |
| And their hours are old and gray | B |
| And their minutes buried all | C |
| Under the down trodden pall | D |
| Of the leaves of many years | E |
| Many times have winter's shears | F |
| Frozen North and chilling East | G |
| Sounded tempests to the feast | G |
| Of the forest's whispering fleeces | H |
| Since men knew nor rent nor leases | H |
| - | |
| No the bugle sounds no more | I |
| And the twanging bow no more | I |
| Silent is the ivory shrill | J |
| Past the heath and up the hill | J |
| There is no mid forest laugh | K |
| Where lone Echo gives the half | K |
| To some wight amaz'd to hear | L |
| Jesting deep in forest drear | L |
| - | |
| On the fairest time of June | M |
| You may go with sun or moon | M |
| Or the seven stars to light you | N |
| Or the polar ray to right you | N |
| But you never may behold | O |
| Little John or Robin bold | O |
| Never one of all the clan | P |
| Thrumming on an empty can | P |
| Some old hunting ditty while | Q |
| He doth his green way beguile | Q |
| To fair hostess Merriment | O |
| Down beside the pasture Trent | O |
| For he left the merry tale | R |
| Messenger for spicy ale | R |
| - | |
| Gone the merry morris din | S |
| Gone the song of Gamelyn | S |
| Gone the tough belted outlaw | T |
| Idling in the gren egrave shawe | B |
| All are gone away and past | O |
| And if Robin should be cast | O |
| Sudden from his turfed grave | U |
| And if Marian should have | V |
| Once again her forest days | W |
| She would weep and he would craze | W |
| He would swear for all his oaks | X |
| Fall'n beneath the dockyard strokes | X |
| Have rotted on the briny seas | Y |
| She would weep that her wild bees | Y |
| Sang not to her strange that honey | S |
| Can't be got without hard money | S |
| - | |
| So it is yet let us sing | Z |
| Honour to the old bow string | Z |
| Honour to the bugle horn | S |
| Honour to the woods unshorn | S |
| Honour to the Lincoln green | S |
| Honour to the archer keen | S |
| Honour to tight little John | S |
| And the horse he rode upon | S |
| Honour to bold Robin Hood | O |
| Sleeping in the underwood | O |
| Honour to maid Marian | S |
| And to all the Sherwood clan | S |
| Though their days have hurried by | A2 |
| Let us two a burden try | A2 |
John Keats
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