A Mabinogi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECE EAFA GCHC HCIC IJCJ KLMN OIPI QQIQ OGPG IPIP CROR| In 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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