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 AG2C2G2

Down the Savoy valleys soundingA
Echoing round this castle oldB
'Mid the distant mountain chaletsC
Hark what bell for church is toll'dB
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In the bright October morningA
Savoy's Duke had left his brideD
From the castle past the drawbridgeE
Flow'd the hunters' merry tideD
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Steeds are neighing gallants glitteringA
Gay her smiling lord to greetF
From her mullion'd chamber casementF
Smiles the Duchess MargueriteF
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From Vienna by the DanubeG
Here she came a bride in springA
Now the autumn crisps the forestF
Hunters gather bugles ringA
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Hounds are pulling prickers swearingA
Horses fret and boar spears glanceH
Off They sweep the marshy forestsI
Westward on the side of FranceH
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Hark the game's on foot they scatterJ
Down the forest ridings loneK
Furious single horsemen gallopL
Hark a shout a crash a groanK
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Pale and breathless came the huntersM
On the turf dead lies the boarN
God the Duke lies stretch'd beside himO
Senseless weltering in his goreN
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In the dull October eveningA
Down the leaf strewn forest roadF
To the castle past the drawbridgeE
Came the hunters with their loadF
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In the hall with sconces blazingA
Ladies waiting round her seatF
Clothed in smiles beneath the daisC
Sate the Duchess MargueriteF
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Hark below the gates unbarringA
Tramp of men and quick commandsP
' 'Tis my lord come back from hunting '-
And the Duchess claps her handsP
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Slow and tired came the huntersM
Stopp'd in darkness in the courtF
' Ho this way ye laggard huntersM
To the hall What sport What sport '-
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Slow they enter'd with their MasterJ
In the hall they laid him downQ
On his coat were leaves and blood stainsR
On his brow an angry frownQ
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Dead her princely youthful husbandF
Lay before his youthful wifeS
Bloody 'neath the flaring sconcesT
And the sight froze all her lifeS
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In Vienna by the DanubeG
Kings hold revel gallants meetF
Gay of old amid the gayestF
Was the Duchess MargueriteF
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In Vienna by the DanubeG
Feast and dance her youth beguil'dF
Till that hour she never sorrow'dF
But from then she never smil'dF
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'Mid the Savoy mountain valleysU
Far from town or haunt of manV
Stands a lonely church unfinish'dF
Which the Duchess Maud beganV
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Old that Duchess stern began itF
In grey age with palsied handsP
But she died while it was buildingA
And the Church unfinish'd standsP
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Stands as erst the builders left itF
When she sank into her graveW
Mountain greensward paves the chancelX
Harebells flower in the naveW
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'In my castle all is sorrow '-
Said the Duchess Marguerite thenY
'Guide me some one to the mountainZ
We will build the Church again '-
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Sandall'd palmers faring homewardF
Austrian knights from Syria cameA2
'Austrian wanderers bring O wardersM
Homage to your Austrian dame '-
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From the gate the warders answer'dF
'Gone O knights is she you knewB2
Dead our Duke and gone his DuchessC2
Seek her at the Church of Brou '-
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Austrian knights and march worn palmersC2
Climb the winding mountain wayD2
Reach the valley where the FabricA
Rises higher day by dayD2
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Stones are sawing hammers ringingA
On the work the bright sun shinesC2
In the Savoy mountain meadowsC2
By the stream below the pinesC2
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On her palfry white the DuchessC2
Sate and watch'd her working trainE2
Flemish carvers Lombard gildersC2
German masons smiths from SpainE2
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Clad in black on her white palfreyF2
Her old architect besideF
There they found her in the mountainsC2
Morn and noon and eventideF
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There she sate and watch'd the buildersC2
Till the Church was roof'd and doneZ
Last of all the builders rear'd herJ
In the nave a tomb of stoneK
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On the tomb two forms they sculpturedF
Lifelike in the marble paleX
One the Duke in helm and armourJ
One the Duchess in her veilX
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Round the tomb the carved stone fretworkA
Was at Easter tide put onG2
Then the Duchess closed her laboursC2
And she died at the St JohnG2

Matthew Arnold



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