Elphin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFDFFF FGHGDI JBJBFB JKFKFK DLDLDL FMNMBM BJFJJJ FFAFOF| The eve was a burning copper | A |
| The night was a boundless black | B |
| Where wells of the lightning crumbled | C |
| And boiled with blazing rack | B |
| When I came to the coal black castle | D |
| With the wild rain on my back | B |
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| Thrice under its goblin towers | E |
| Where the causey of rock was laid | F |
| Thrice there at its spider portal | D |
| My scornful bugle brayed | F |
| But never a warder questioned | F |
| An owl's was the answer made | F |
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| When the heaven above was blistered | F |
| One scald of blinding storm | G |
| And the blackness clanged like a cavern | H |
| Of iron where demons swarm | G |
| I rode in the court of the castle | D |
| With the shield upon my arm | I |
| - | |
| My sword unsheathed and certain | J |
| Of the visor of my casque | B |
| My steel steps challenged the donjon | J |
| My gauntlet should unmask | B |
| But never a knight or varlet | F |
| To stay or slay or ask | B |
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| My heels on the stone ground iron | J |
| My fists on the bolts clashed steel | K |
| In the hall the roar of the torrent | F |
| In the turret the thunder's peal | K |
| And I found her there in the turret | F |
| Alone by her spinning wheel | K |
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| She spun the flax of a spindle | D |
| And I wondered on her face | L |
| She spun the flax of a spindle | D |
| And I marvelled on her grace | L |
| She spun the flax of a spindle | D |
| And I watched a little space | L |
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| But nerves of my manhood weakened | F |
| The heart in my breast was wax | M |
| Myself but the hide of an image | N |
| Out stuffed with the hards of flax | M |
| She spun and she smiled a spinning | B |
| A spindle of blood red flax | M |
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| She spun and she laughed a spinning | B |
| The blood of my veins in a skein | J |
| But I knew how the charm was mastered | F |
| And snapped in the hissing vein | J |
| So she wove but a fiery scorpion | J |
| That writhed from her hands again | J |
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| Fleeing in rain and in tempest | F |
| Saw by the cataract's bed | F |
| Cancers of ulcerous fire | A |
| Wounds of a bloody red | F |
| Its windows glare in the darkness | O |
| Eyes of a dragon's head | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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