My Lady Of Castle Grand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBHB IJKJ LMNM KOPO NQKQ KBRB| Gray is the palace where she dwells | A |
| Grimly the poplars stand | B |
| There by the window where she sits | C |
| My Lady of Castle Grand | B |
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| There does she bide the livelong day | D |
| Grim as the poplars are | E |
| Ever her gaze goes reaching out | F |
| Steady but vague and far | E |
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| Bright burn the fires in the castle hall | G |
| Brightly the fire dogs stand | B |
| But cold is the body and cold the heart | H |
| Of my Lady of Castle Grand | B |
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| Blue are the veins in her lily white hands | I |
| Blue are the veins in her brow | J |
| Thin is the line of her blue drawn lips | K |
| Who would be haughty now | J |
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| Pale is the face at the window pane | L |
| Pale as the pearl on her breast | M |
| Roderick love wilt come again | N |
| Fares he to east or west | M |
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| The shepherd pipes to the shepherdess | K |
| The bird to his mate in the tree | O |
| And ever she sighs as she hears their song | P |
| Nobody sings for me | O |
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| The scullery maids have swains enow | N |
| Who lead them the way of love | Q |
| But lonely and loveless their mistress sits | K |
| At her window up above | Q |
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| Loveless and lonely she waits and waits | K |
| The saddest in all the land | B |
| Ah cruel and lasting is love blind pride | R |
| My Lady of Castle Grand | B |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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