Romaunt Of The Oak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE BB FF G HH II JK LL MM FN OO GG P QQ RR CC SS FF TT UU VV WW F XX YY ZA2 B2B2 C2C2 D2D2 E2E2 F2F2 FF N PG2'I rode to death for I fought for shame | A |
The Lady Maurine of noble name | A |
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'The fair and faithless Though life be long | B |
Is love the wiser Love made song | B |
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'Of all my life and the soul that crept | C |
Before arose like a star and leapt | C |
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'Still leaps with the love that it found untrue | D |
That it found unworthy Now run me through | D |
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'Yea run me through for meet and well | E |
And a jest for laughter of fiends in hell | E |
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'It is that I who have done no wrong | B |
Should die by the hand of Hugh the Strong | B |
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'Of Hugh her leman What else could be | F |
When the devil was judge twixt thee and me | F |
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'He splintered my lance and my blade he broke | G |
Now finish me thou 'neath the trysting oak ' | - |
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The crest of his foeman a heart of white | H |
In a bath of fire stooped i' the night | H |
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Stooped and laughed as his sword he swung | I |
Then galloped away with a laugh on his tongue | I |
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But who is she in the gray wet dawn | J |
'Mid the autumn shades like a shadow wan | K |
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Who kneels one hand on her straining breast | L |
One hand on the dead man's bosom pressed | L |
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Her face is dim as the dead's as cold | M |
As his tarnished harness of steel and gold | M |
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O Lady Maurine O Lady Maurine | F |
What boots it now that regret is keen | N |
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That his hair you smooth that you kiss his brow | O |
What boots it now what boots it now | O |
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She has haled him under the trysting oak | G |
The huge old oak that the creepers cloak | G |
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She has stood him gaunt in his battered arms | P |
In its haunted hollow 'Be safe from storms ' | - |
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She laughed as his cloven casque she placed | Q |
On his brow and his riven shield she braced | Q |
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Then sat and talked to the forest flowers | R |
Through the lonely term of the day's pale hours | R |
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And stared and whispered and smiled and wept | C |
While nearer and nearer the evening crept | C |
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And lo when the moon like a great gold bloom | S |
Above the sorrowful trees did loom | S |
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She rose up sobbing 'O moon come see | F |
My bridegroom here in the old oak tree | F |
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'I have talked to the flowers all day all day | T |
For never a word had he to say | T |
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'He would not listen he would not hear | U |
Though I wailed my longing into his ear | U |
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'O moon steal in where he stands so grim | V |
And tell him I love him and plead with him | V |
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'Soften his face that is cold and stern | W |
And brighten his eyes and make them burn | W |
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'O moon O moon so my soul can see | F |
That his heart still glows with love for me ' | - |
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When the moon was set and the woods were dark | X |
The wild deer came and stood as stark | X |
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As phantoms with eyes of fire or fled | Y |
Like a ghostly hunt of the herded dead | Y |
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And the hoot owl called and the were wolf snarled | Z |
And a voice in the boughs of the oak tree gnarled | A2 |
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Like the whining rush of the hags that ride | B2 |
To the witches' sabboth crooned and cried | B2 |
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And wrapped in his mantle of wind and cloud | C2 |
The storm fiend stalked through the forest loud | C2 |
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When she heard the dead man rattle and groan | D2 |
As the oak was bent and its leaves were blown | D2 |
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And the lightning vanished and shimmered his mail | E2 |
Through the swirling sweep of the rain and hail | E2 |
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She seemed to hear him who seemed to call | F2 |
'Come hither Maurine the wild leaves fall | F2 |
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'The wild leaves rustle the wild leaves flee | F |
Come hither Maurine to the hollow tree | F |
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'To the trysting tree to the tree once green | N |
Come hither Maurine come hither Maurine ' | - |
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They found her closed in his armored arms | P |
Had he claimed his bride on that night of storms | G2 |
Madison Julius Cawein
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