Which? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FFFFGG HIHI C FHFHFF| So the three Court ladies began | A |
| Their trial of who judged best | B |
| In esteeming the love of a man | A |
| Who preferred with most reason was thereby confessed | B |
| Boy Cupid's exemplary catcher and cager | C |
| An Abb crossed legs to decide on the wager | C |
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| First the Duchesse Mine for me | D |
| Who were it but God's for Him | E |
| And the King's for who but he | D |
| Both faithful and loyal one grace more shall brim | E |
| His cup with perfection a lady's true lover | C |
| He holds save his God and his king none above her | C |
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| I require outspoke the Marquise | F |
| Pure thoughts ay but also fine deeds | F |
| Play the paladin must he to please | F |
| My whim and to prove my knight's service exceeds | F |
| Your saint's and your loyalist's praying and kneeling | G |
| Show wounds each wide mouth to my mercy appealing | G |
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| Then the Comtesse My choice be a wretch | H |
| Mere losel in body and soul | I |
| Thrice accurst What care I so he stretch | H |
| Arms to me his sole savior love's ultimate goal | I |
| Out of earth and men's noise names of 'infidel ' 'traitor ' | - |
| Cast up at him Crown me crown's adjudicator | C |
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| And the Abb uncrossed his legs | F |
| Took snuff a reflective pinch | H |
| Broke silence The question begs | F |
| Much pondering ere I pronounce Shall I flinch | H |
| The love which to one and one only has reference | F |
| Seems terribly like what perhaps gains God's preference | F |
Robert Browning
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