Aix In Provence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC D EFEFGG D HIHIJJ K LMLMNN K OPOPQQ K RSRSTT K UVUWXX K YZA2ZB2C2 W D2ID2I W W E2F2E2F2W W KOKOG2G2 W H2I2H2I2J2J2 W K2L2K2L2NN H2 M2YM2YN2N2 H2 I2WI2WH2H2 H2 O2P2O2P2H2H2 H2 E2Q2E2Q2R2R2 H2 S2T2S2T2MM W U2V2U2V2W2W2 W X2Y2X2Y2WW W Z2A3B3A3C3W H2| Christ God who savest man save most | A |
| Of men Count Gismond who saved me | B |
| Count Gauthier when he chose his post | A |
| Chose time and place and company | B |
| To suit it when he struck at length | C |
| My honour 'twas with all his strength | C |
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| II | D |
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| And doubtlessly ere he could draw | E |
| All points to one he must have schemed | F |
| That miserable morning saw | E |
| Few half so happy as I seemed | F |
| While being dressed in queen's array | G |
| To give our tourney prize away | G |
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| III | D |
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| I thought they loved me did me grace | H |
| To please themselves 'twas all their deed | I |
| God makes or fair or foul our face | H |
| If showing mine so caused to bleed | I |
| My cousins' hearts they should have dropped | J |
| A word and straight the play had stopped | J |
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| IV | K |
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| They too so beauteous Each a queen | L |
| By virtue of her brow and breast | M |
| Not needing to be crowned I mean | L |
| As I do E'en when I was dressed | M |
| Had either of them spoke instead | N |
| Of glancing sideways with still head | N |
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| V | K |
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| But no they let me laugh and sing | O |
| My birthday song quite through adjust | P |
| The last rose in my garland fling | O |
| A last look on the mirror trust | P |
| My arms to each an arm of theirs | Q |
| And so descend the castle stairs | Q |
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| VI | K |
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| And come out on the morning troop | R |
| Of merry friends who kissed my cheek | S |
| And called me queen and made me stoop | R |
| Under the canopy a streak | S |
| That pierced it of the outside sun | T |
| Powdered with gold its gloom's soft dun | T |
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| VII | K |
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| And they could let me take my state | U |
| And foolish throne amid applause | V |
| Of all come there to celebrate | U |
| My queen's day Oh I think the cause | W |
| Of much was they forgot no crowd | X |
| Makes up for parents in their shroud | X |
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| VIII | K |
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| However that be all eyes were bent | Y |
| Upon me when my cousins cast | Z |
| Theirs down 'twas time I should present | A2 |
| The victor's crown but there 'twill last | Z |
| No long time the old mist again | B2 |
| Blinds me as then it did How vain | C2 |
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| IX | W |
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| See Gismond's at the gate in talk | D2 |
| With his two boys I can proceed | I |
| Well at that moment who should stalk | D2 |
| Forth boldly to my face indeed | I |
| But Gauthier and he thundered Stay '' | - |
| And all stayed Bring no crowns I say | W |
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| X | W |
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| Bring torches Wind the penance sheet | E2 |
| About her Let her shun the chaste | F2 |
| Or lay herself before their feet | E2 |
| Shall she whose body I embraced | F2 |
| A night long queen it in the day | W |
| For honour's sake no crowns I say '' | - |
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| XI | W |
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| I What I answered As I live | K |
| I never fancied such a thing | O |
| As answer possible to give | K |
| What says the body when they spring | O |
| Some monstrous torture engine's whole | G2 |
| Strength on it No more says the soul | G2 |
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| XII | W |
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| Till out strode Gismond then I knew | H2 |
| That I was saved I never met | I2 |
| His face before but at first view | H2 |
| I felt quite sure that God had set | I2 |
| Himself to Satan who would spend | J2 |
| A minute's mistrust on the end | J2 |
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| XIII | W |
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| He strode to Gauthier in his throat | K2 |
| Gave him the lie then struck his mouth | L2 |
| With one back handed blow that wrote | K2 |
| In blood men's verdict there North South | L2 |
| East West I looked The lie was dead | N |
| And damned and truth stood up instead | N |
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| XIV | H2 |
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| This glads me most that I enjoyed | M2 |
| The heart of the joy with my content | Y |
| In watching Gismond unalloyed | M2 |
| By any doubt of the event | Y |
| God took that on him I was bid | N2 |
| Watch Gismond for my part I did | N2 |
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| XV | H2 |
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| Did I not watch him while he let | I2 |
| His armourer just brace his greaves | W |
| Rivet his hauberk on the fret | I2 |
| The while His foot my memory leaves | W |
| No least stamp out nor how anon | H2 |
| He pulled his ringing gauntlets on | H2 |
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| XVI | H2 |
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| And e'en before the trumpet's sound | O2 |
| Was finished prone lay the false knight | P2 |
| Prone as his lie upon the ground | O2 |
| Gismond flew at him used no sleight | P2 |
| O' the sword but open breasted drove | H2 |
| Cleaving till out the truth he clove | H2 |
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| XVII | H2 |
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| Which done he dragged him to my feet | E2 |
| And said Here die but end thy breath | Q2 |
| In full confession lest thou fleet | E2 |
| From my first to God's second death | Q2 |
| Say hast thou lied '' And I have lied | R2 |
| To God and her '' he said and died | R2 |
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| XVIII | H2 |
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| Then Gismond kneeling to me asked | S2 |
| What safe my heart holds though no word | T2 |
| Could I repeat now if I tasked | S2 |
| My powers forever to a third | T2 |
| Dear even as you are Pass the rest | M |
| Until I sank upon his breast | M |
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| XIX | W |
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| Over my head his arm he flung | U2 |
| Against the world and scarce I felt | V2 |
| His sword that dripped by me and swung | U2 |
| A little shifted in its belt | V2 |
| For he began to say the while | W2 |
| How South our home lay many a mile | W2 |
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| XX | W |
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| So 'mid the shouting multitude | X2 |
| We two walked forth to never more | Y2 |
| Return My cousins have pursued | X2 |
| Their life untroubled as before | Y2 |
| I vexed them Gauthier's dwelling place | W |
| God lighten May his soul find grace | W |
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| XXI | W |
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| Our elder boy has got the clear | Z2 |
| Great brow tho' when his brother's black | A3 |
| Full eye slows scorn it Gismond here | B3 |
| And have you brought my tercel back | A3 |
| I just was telling Adela | C3 |
| How many birds it struck since May | W |
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| A male of the peregrine falcon | H2 |
Robert Browning
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