A Mabinogi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE EAFA GCHC HCIC IJCJ KLMN OIPI QQIQ OGPG IPIP CRORIn samite sark yclad was she | A |
And that fair glimmerish band of gold | B |
Which crowned long savage locks of hair | C |
In the moon brent cold | B |
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She with big eyeballs gloomed and glowered | D |
And lightly hummed some Elfin's song | E |
And one could naught save on her stare | C |
And fare along | E |
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Yea sad and lute like was that song | E |
And softly said its mystery | A |
Which quaintly sang in elden verse | F |
Thy love I'll be | A |
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And oft it said I love thee true | G |
Sir Ewain champion of the fair | C |
And never wist he what a witch | H |
Was that one there | C |
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And never wist he that a witch | H |
Had bound him with her wily hair | C |
Eke with dark art had ta'en his heart | I |
To slay him there | C |
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And all his soul did wax amort | I |
To stars to hills to slades to streams | J |
And it but held that sorceress fair | C |
As one of dreams | J |
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And now he kens some castle gray | K |
Wild turrets ivied in the moon | L |
Old where through woodlands foaming on | M |
A torrent shone | N |
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In its high hall full twenty knights | O |
With visors barred all sternly stand | I |
The following of some gracious brave | P |
Lord of the land | I |
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And lo when that dim damosel | Q |
Moved down the hall they louted low | Q |
And she was queen of all that band | I |
That dame of snow | Q |
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Now on that knight she stared eftsoons | O |
And cried on high unto her crew | G |
Behold Sir Knights the dastard brave | P |
Your king that slew | G |
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And all those heathen knights wox wild | I |
Attonce and all against him drave | P |
Long battle blades and daggers bright | I |
Aloft did wave | P |
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The press on him puissant bare | C |
And smote him to the rush strown earth | R |
Tall tall o'er all that Fairy rose | O |
Aloud with mirth | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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