The Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDCEFGF HIHIICDC JKLMMCDC ENENOPQPEFGF| The knight came home from the quest | A |
| Muddied and sore he came | B |
| Battered of shield and crest | A |
| Bannerless bruised and lame | B |
| Fighting we take no shame | B |
| Better is man for a fall | C |
| Merrily borne the bugle horn | D |
| Answered the warder's call | C |
| Here is my lance to mend Haro | E |
| Here is my horse to be shot | F |
| Ay they were strong and the fight was long | G |
| But I paid as good as I got | F |
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| Oh dark and deep their van | H |
| That mocked my battle cry | I |
| I could not miss my man | H |
| But I could not carry by | I |
| Utterly whelmed was I | I |
| Flung under horse and all | C |
| Merrily borne the bugle horn | D |
| Answered the warder's call | C |
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| My wounds are noised abroad | J |
| But theirs my foemen cloaked | K |
| Ye see my broken sword | L |
| But never the blades she broke | M |
| Paying them stroke for stroke | M |
| Good handsel over all | C |
| Merrily borne the bugle horn | D |
| Answered the warder's call | C |
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| My shame ye count and know | E |
| Ye say the quest is vain | N |
| Ye have not seen my foe | E |
| Ye have not told his slain | N |
| Surely he fights again again | O |
| But when ye prove his line | P |
| There shall come to your aid my broken blade | Q |
| In the last lost fight of mine | P |
| And here is my lance to mend Haro | E |
| And here is my horse to be shot | F |
| Ay they were strong and the fight was long | G |
| But I paid as good as I got | F |
Rudyard Kipling
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