The Ballad Of The Dark Ladie. A Fragment. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI FKLK MNO PLQJ RSIS TUV WXYX ZA2B2A2 C2D2E2 ANF2N G2H2OH2 I2J2K2J2 L2M2J2| Beneath yon birch with silver bark | A |
| And boughs so pendulous and fair | B |
| The brook falls scatter'd down the rock | C |
| And all is mossy there | B |
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| And there upon the moss she sits | D |
| The Dark Ladie in silent pain | E |
| The heavy tear is in her eye | F |
| And drops and swells again | G |
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| Three times she sends her little page | H |
| Up the castled mountain's breast | I |
| If he might find the Knight that wears | J |
| The Griffin for his crest | I |
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| The sun was sloping down the sky | F |
| And she had linger'd there all day | K |
| Counting moments dreaming fears | L |
| Oh wherefore can he stay | K |
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| She hears a rustling o'er the brook | M |
| She sees far off a swinging bough | N |
| ''Tis He 'Tis my betrothed Knight | O |
| Lord Falkland it is Thou ' | - |
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| She springs she clasps him round the neck | P |
| She sobs a thousand hopes and fears | L |
| Her kisses glowing on his cheeks | Q |
| She quenches with her tears | J |
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| 'My friends with rude ungentle words | R |
| They scoff and bid me fly to thee | S |
| O give me shelter in thy breast | I |
| O shield and shelter me | S |
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| 'My Henry I have given thee much | T |
| I gave what I can ne'er recall | U |
| I gave my heart I gave my peace | V |
| O Heaven I gave thee all ' | - |
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| The Knight made answer to the Maid | W |
| While to his heart he held her hand | X |
| 'Nine castles hath my noble sire | Y |
| None statelier in the land | X |
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| 'The fairest one shall be my love's | Z |
| The fairest castle of the nine | A2 |
| Wait only till the stars peep out | B2 |
| The fairest shall be thine | A2 |
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| 'Wait only till the hand of eve | C2 |
| Hath wholly closed yon western bars | D2 |
| And through the dark we two will steal | E2 |
| Beneath the twinkling stars ' | - |
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| 'The dark the dark No not the dark | A |
| The twinkling stars How Henry How | N |
| O God 'twas in the eye of noon | F2 |
| He pledged his sacred vow | N |
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| 'And in the eye of noon my love | G2 |
| Shall lead me from my mother's door | H2 |
| Sweet boys and girls all clothed in white | O |
| Strewing flowers before | H2 |
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| 'But first the nodding minstrels go | I2 |
| With music meet for lordly bowers | J2 |
| The children next in snow white vests | K2 |
| Strewing buds and flowers | J2 |
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| 'And then my love and I shall pace | L2 |
| My jet black hair in pearly braids | M2 |
| Between our comely bachelors | J2 |
| And blushing bridal maids ' | - |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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