Gow's Watch : Act V. Scene 3 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B AC A AD E F G HIDJKED L D D GM N JMD O PQR M DSJ DT MA Q U VT WWA U T DXYB Z A A2 D B2 C2 D2DE2DD F2 F2G2 H2 I2 D J2 J2K2 L2 DI H2 DM2KEAN2E T O2DVL2H2DL2P2N2DAL2L 2H2P2Q2 L2H2| After the Battle The PRINCESS by the Standard on the Ravelin | A |
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| Enter Gow with the Crown of the Kingdom | B |
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| GOW Here's earnest of the Queen's submission | A |
| This by her last herald and in haste | C |
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| PRINCESS 'Twas ours already Where is the woman | A |
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| GOW 'Fled with her horse They broke at dawn | A |
| Noon has not struck and you're Queen questionless | D |
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| PRINCESS By you through you How shall I honour you | E |
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| GOW Me But for what | F |
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| PRINCESS For all all all | G |
| Since the realm sunk beneath us Hear him For what ' | - |
| Your body 'twixt my bosom and her knife | H |
| Your lips on the cup she proffered for my death | I |
| Your one cloak over me that night in the snows | D |
| We held the Pass at Bargi Every hour | J |
| New strengths to this most unbelievable last | K |
| 'Honour him ' I will honour will honour you | E |
| 'Tis at your choice | D |
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| GOW Child mine was long ago | L |
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| Enter FERDINAND as from horse | D |
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| But here's one worthy honour Welcome Fox | D |
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| FERDINAND And to you Watchdog This day clenches all | G |
| We've made it and seen it | M |
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| GOW Is the city held | N |
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| FERDINAND Loyally Oh they're drunk with loyalty yonder | J |
| A virtuous mood Your bombards helped 'em to it | M |
| But here's my word for you The Lady Frances | D |
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| PRINCESS I left her sick in the city No harm I pray | O |
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| FERDINAND Nothing that she called harm In truth so little | P |
| That to Gow I am bidden tell you she'll be here | Q |
| Almost as soon as I | R |
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| GOW She says it | M |
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| FERDINAND Writes | D |
| This Gives him letter Yester eve 'Twas given me by the priest | S |
| He with her in her hour | J |
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| GOW So Reads So it is | D |
| She will be here To Ferdinand And all is safe in the city | T |
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| FERDINAND As thy long sword and my lean wits can make it | M |
| You've naught to stay for Is it the road again | A |
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| GOW Ay This time not alone She will be here | Q |
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| PRINCESS I am here You have not looked at me awhile | U |
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| GOW The rest is with you Ferdinand | V |
| Then free | T |
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| PRINCESS And at my service more than ever I claim | W |
| Our wars have taught me being your Queen now claim | W |
| You wholly mine | A |
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| GOW Then free She will be here A little while | U |
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| PRINCESS to FERDINAND He looks beyond not at me | T |
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| FERDINAND Weariness | D |
| We are not so young as once was 'Two days' fight | X |
| A worthy servitor to be allowed | Y |
| Some freedom | B |
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| PRINCESS I have offered him all he would | Z |
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| FERDINAND He takes what he has taken | A |
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| The Spirit of the LADY FRANCES appears to Gow | A2 |
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| GOW Frances | D |
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| PRINCESS Distraught | B2 |
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| FERDINAND An old head blow maybe He has dealt in them | C2 |
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| GOW to the Spirit What can the Grave against us O my Heart | D2 |
| Comfort and light and reason in all things | D |
| Visible and invisible my one God | E2 |
| Thou that wast I these barren unyoked years | D |
| Of triflings now at end Frances | D |
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| PRINCESS She's old | F2 |
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| FERDINAND True By most reckonings old | F2 |
| They must keep other count | G2 |
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| PRINCESS He kisses his hand to the air | H2 |
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| FERDINAND His ring rather he kisses Yes for sure the ring | I2 |
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| GOW Dear and most dear And now those very arms Dies | D |
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| PRINCESS Oh look He faints Haste you Unhelm him Help | J2 |
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| FERDINAND Needless No help | J2 |
| Avails against that poison He is sped | K2 |
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| PRINCESS By his own hand This hour When I had offered | L2 |
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| FERDINAND He had made other choice an old old choice | D |
| Ne'er swerved from and now patently sealed in death | I |
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| PRINCESS He called on the Lady Frances was it Wherefore | H2 |
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| FERDINAND Because she was his life Forgive my friend covers Gow's face | D |
| God's uttermost beyond me in all faith | M2 |
| Service and passion if I unveil at last | K |
| The secret To the Princess Thought dreamed you it was for you | E |
| He poured himself for you resoldered the Crown | A |
| Struck here held there amended broke built up | N2 |
| His multiplied imaginings for you | E |
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| PRINCESS I thought I thought he | T |
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| FERDINAND Looked beyond Her wish | O2 |
| Was the sole Law he knew She did not choose | D |
| Your House should perish Therefore he bade it stand | V |
| Enough for him when she had breathed a word | L2 |
| 'Twas his to make it iron stone or fire | H2 |
| Driving our flesh and blood before his ways | D |
| As the wind straws Her one face unregarded | L2 |
| Waiting you with your mantle or your glove | P2 |
| That is the God whom he is gone to worship | N2 |
| Trumpets without Enter the Prince's Heralds | D |
| And here's the work of Kingship begun again | A |
| These from the Prince of Bargi to whose sword | L2 |
| You owe such help as may he thinks be paid | L2 |
| He's equal in blood in fortune more than peer | H2 |
| Young most well favoured with a heart to love | P2 |
| And two States in the balance Do you meet him | Q2 |
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| PRINCESS God and my Misery I have seen Love at last | L2 |
| What shall content me after | H2 |
Rudyard Kipling
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