The King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDFDGHIJDDKDL MNDOPQDDKRSTDU VTDWXDYZGA2ZZTZDDD| A blown white bubble buoyed zenith ward | A |
| Up from the tremulous East the round moon swung | B |
| Mist murky and the unsocial stars that thronged | C |
| Hot with the drought thick down the empty West | D |
| Winked thirstily no wind to rouse the leaves | E |
| That o'er the glaring road lolled palpitant | D |
| Withered and whitened of the weary dust | D |
| From iron hoofs of that gay fellowship | F |
| Of knights which gat at morn the king disguised | D |
| Whose mind was in the lists to joust and be | G |
| An equal mid unequals man with man | H |
| Who from the towers of Edric passed wherein | I |
| Some nights he'd sojourned till one morn a horn | J |
| Sang at dim portals musical with dew | D |
| Wild echoes of wild woodlands and the hunt | D |
| Clear herald of the staunchest of his knights | K |
| And they to the great jousts at Camelot | D |
| Rode pounding off a noise of steel and steeds | L |
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| Thick in the stagnant moat the lilies lay | M |
| Ghastly and rotting hoarse with rusty chains | N |
| The drawbridge hung before the barbed grate | D |
| And far above along lone battlements | O |
| His armor moon drenched one great sentinel | P |
| Clanked drowsily and it was late in June | Q |
| She at her lattice lawny night robed leaned | D |
| Dreaming of somewhat dear and happy smiled | D |
| From glorious eyes a face like gracious nights | K |
| One silent brilliancy of steadfast stars | R |
| Innumerable and delicate through the dusk | S |
| Long loosened loops and coils of sensuous hair | T |
| Rolled turbulence down naked neck and throat | D |
| That shamed the moonshine with a rival sheen | U |
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| One stooped above her till his nostrils drank | V |
| Rich faint perfumes that blossomed in her hair | T |
| And 'round her waist hooped one strong arm and drew | D |
| Her mightily to him soft burying deep | W |
| In crushed fresh linen warm with flesh his arm | X |
| Searched all her eyes until his own were drugged | D |
| Mad with their fire quick one hungry kiss | Y |
| Like anger bruised fierce on her breathless lips | Z |
| Whispered And lov'st but one and he | G |
| Sweet sweet my lord thou wotest well and then | A2 |
| From love's stern beauty writhen into hate's | Z |
| Gnarled hideousness he haled her sweet white face | Z |
| Back back by its large braids of plenteous hair | T |
| Till her full bosom's clamorous speechlessness | Z |
| Stiff on the moon burst white low mocked and laughed | D |
| The King I wot adulteress and a blade | D |
| Glanced thin as ice plunged hard hard in her heart | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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