The Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED AFFF GAFA AHIH JKLK MNON AFEF AFCF AP P MFM JQRQ FSTS GFFF GFFF UVFV FPAP FWXW YZ FA2M FB2C2 C2D2AD2 AC2C2C2 C2E2C2E2 F2FC2F C2ZJK FXJX AG2C2G2Down the Savoy valleys sounding | A |
Echoing round this castle old | B |
'Mid the distant mountain chalets | C |
Hark what bell for church is toll'd | B |
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In the bright October morning | A |
Savoy's Duke had left his bride | D |
From the castle past the drawbridge | E |
Flow'd the hunters' merry tide | D |
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Steeds are neighing gallants glittering | A |
Gay her smiling lord to greet | F |
From her mullion'd chamber casement | F |
Smiles the Duchess Marguerite | F |
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From Vienna by the Danube | G |
Here she came a bride in spring | A |
Now the autumn crisps the forest | F |
Hunters gather bugles ring | A |
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Hounds are pulling prickers swearing | A |
Horses fret and boar spears glance | H |
Off They sweep the marshy forests | I |
Westward on the side of France | H |
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Hark the game's on foot they scatter | J |
Down the forest ridings lone | K |
Furious single horsemen gallop | L |
Hark a shout a crash a groan | K |
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Pale and breathless came the hunters | M |
On the turf dead lies the boar | N |
God the Duke lies stretch'd beside him | O |
Senseless weltering in his gore | N |
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In the dull October evening | A |
Down the leaf strewn forest road | F |
To the castle past the drawbridge | E |
Came the hunters with their load | F |
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In the hall with sconces blazing | A |
Ladies waiting round her seat | F |
Clothed in smiles beneath the dais | C |
Sate the Duchess Marguerite | F |
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Hark below the gates unbarring | A |
Tramp of men and quick commands | P |
' 'Tis my lord come back from hunting ' | - |
And the Duchess claps her hands | P |
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Slow and tired came the hunters | M |
Stopp'd in darkness in the court | F |
' Ho this way ye laggard hunters | M |
To the hall What sport What sport ' | - |
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Slow they enter'd with their Master | J |
In the hall they laid him down | Q |
On his coat were leaves and blood stains | R |
On his brow an angry frown | Q |
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Dead her princely youthful husband | F |
Lay before his youthful wife | S |
Bloody 'neath the flaring sconces | T |
And the sight froze all her life | S |
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In Vienna by the Danube | G |
Kings hold revel gallants meet | F |
Gay of old amid the gayest | F |
Was the Duchess Marguerite | F |
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In Vienna by the Danube | G |
Feast and dance her youth beguil'd | F |
Till that hour she never sorrow'd | F |
But from then she never smil'd | F |
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'Mid the Savoy mountain valleys | U |
Far from town or haunt of man | V |
Stands a lonely church unfinish'd | F |
Which the Duchess Maud began | V |
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Old that Duchess stern began it | F |
In grey age with palsied hands | P |
But she died while it was building | A |
And the Church unfinish'd stands | P |
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Stands as erst the builders left it | F |
When she sank into her grave | W |
Mountain greensward paves the chancel | X |
Harebells flower in the nave | W |
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'In my castle all is sorrow ' | - |
Said the Duchess Marguerite then | Y |
'Guide me some one to the mountain | Z |
We will build the Church again ' | - |
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Sandall'd palmers faring homeward | F |
Austrian knights from Syria came | A2 |
'Austrian wanderers bring O warders | M |
Homage to your Austrian dame ' | - |
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From the gate the warders answer'd | F |
'Gone O knights is she you knew | B2 |
Dead our Duke and gone his Duchess | C2 |
Seek her at the Church of Brou ' | - |
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Austrian knights and march worn palmers | C2 |
Climb the winding mountain way | D2 |
Reach the valley where the Fabric | A |
Rises higher day by day | D2 |
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Stones are sawing hammers ringing | A |
On the work the bright sun shines | C2 |
In the Savoy mountain meadows | C2 |
By the stream below the pines | C2 |
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On her palfry white the Duchess | C2 |
Sate and watch'd her working train | E2 |
Flemish carvers Lombard gilders | C2 |
German masons smiths from Spain | E2 |
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Clad in black on her white palfrey | F2 |
Her old architect beside | F |
There they found her in the mountains | C2 |
Morn and noon and eventide | F |
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There she sate and watch'd the builders | C2 |
Till the Church was roof'd and done | Z |
Last of all the builders rear'd her | J |
In the nave a tomb of stone | K |
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On the tomb two forms they sculptured | F |
Lifelike in the marble pale | X |
One the Duke in helm and armour | J |
One the Duchess in her veil | X |
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Round the tomb the carved stone fretwork | A |
Was at Easter tide put on | G2 |
Then the Duchess closed her labours | C2 |
And she died at the St John | G2 |
Matthew Arnold
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