Tintagel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCDC EFEFGHAGIH| Low is laid Arthur's head | A |
| Unknown earth above him mounded | A |
| By him sleep his splendid knights | B |
| With whose names the world resounded | A |
| Ruined glories flown delights | B |
| Sunk 'mid rumours of old wars | C |
| Where they revelled deep they sleep | D |
| By the wild Atlantic shores | C |
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| On Tintagel's fortressed walls | E |
| Proudly built the loud sea scorning | F |
| Pale the moving moonlight falls | E |
| Through their rents the wind goes mourning | F |
| See ye Knights your ancient home | G |
| Chafed and spoiled and fallen asunder | H |
| Hear ye now as then of old | A |
| Waters rolled and wrath of foam | G |
| Where the waves beneath your graves | I |
| Snow themselves abroad in thunder | H |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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