The Blind Harper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CCCCCC CDCECD CFCFCF CCCCCC CCCCCC| And thus it came my feet were led | A |
| To wizard walls that hairy hung | B |
| Old as their rock the moss made dead | A |
| And like a ditch of fire flung | B |
| Around it uncouth flowers red | A |
| Thrust spur and fang and tongue | B |
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| And here I harped Did dead men list | C |
| Or was it hollow hinges gnarred | C |
| Huge iron scorn in donjon twist | C |
| And when I thought a face sword scarred | C |
| Would curse me lo a woman kissed | C |
| At me hands ringed and starred | C |
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| And so I sang for she had leaned | C |
| Rare beauty to me dark and tall | D |
| I sang of Love whose Court is queened | C |
| Of Ali nor the virginal | E |
| Nor saw how rolled on me a fiend | C |
| Wolf eyeballs from the wall | D |
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| Oh how I sang until she laughed | C |
| Red lips that made lute harmony | F |
| I sang of knights who fought and quaffed | C |
| To Love's own paragon Marie | F |
| Nor saw the suzerain whose shaft | C |
| Was bowed and bent on me | F |
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| And I had harped until she wept | C |
| But when I sang of Ermengarde | C |
| Of Anjou where her Court is kept | C |
| By brave by beauty and by bard | C |
| She turned a raven there and swept | C |
| Me like a fury 'ward | C |
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| A bleeding beak had pierced my sight | C |
| A crimson claw each cheek had lined | C |
| One glimpse wild walls of threatening night | C |
| Heaped raven battlements behind | C |
| A moat of blazing serpents bright | C |
| And then I wandered blind | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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