Guenevere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDFHIJKLMNOPQ RIKJSFT IUFVWKOXYFZIA2JB2C2D 2E2JF2G2SD2JH2KD2 I2JJ2K2UJL2M2N2O2A2 NP2Q2A2| I was a queen and I have lost my crown | A |
| A wife and I have broken all my vows | B |
| A lover and I ruined him I loved | C |
| There is no other havoc left to do | D |
| A little month ago I was a queen | E |
| And mothers held their babies up to see | F |
| When I came riding out of Camelot | G |
| The women smiled and all the world smiled too | D |
| And now what woman's eyes would smile on me | F |
| I still am beautiful and yet what child | H |
| Would think of me as some high heaven sent thing | I |
| An angel clad in gold and miniver | J |
| The world would run from me and yet am I | K |
| No different from the queen they used to love | L |
| If water flowing silver over stones | M |
| Is forded and beneath the horses' feet | N |
| Grows turbid suddenly it clears again | O |
| And men will drink it with no thought of harm | P |
| Yet I am branded for a single fault | Q |
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| I was the flower amid a toiling world | R |
| Where people smiled to see one happy thing | I |
| And they were proud and glad to raise me high | K |
| They only asked that I should be right fair | J |
| A little kind and gowned wondrously | S |
| And surely it were little praise to me | F |
| If I had pleased them well throughout my life | T |
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| I was a queen the daughter of a king | I |
| The crown was never heavy on my head | U |
| It was my right and was a part of me | F |
| The women thought me proud the men were kind | V |
| And bowed right gallantly to kiss my hand | W |
| And watched me as I passed them calmly by | K |
| Along the halls I shall not tread again | O |
| What if to night I should revisit them | X |
| The warders at the gates the kitchen maids | Y |
| The very beggars would stand off from me | F |
| And I their queen would climb the stairs alone | Z |
| Pass through the banquet hall a loathed thing | I |
| And seek my chambers for a hiding place | A2 |
| And I should find them but a sepulchre | J |
| The very rushes rotted on the floors | B2 |
| The fire in ashes on the freezing hearth | C2 |
| I was a queen and he who loved me best | D2 |
| Made me a woman for a night and day | E2 |
| And now I go unqueened forevermore | J |
| A queen should never dream on summer eves | F2 |
| When hovering spells are heavy in the dusk | G2 |
| I think no night was ever quite so still | S |
| So smoothly lit with red along the west | D2 |
| So deeply hushed with quiet through and through | J |
| And strangely clear and deeply dyed with light | H2 |
| The trees stood straight against a paling sky | K |
| With Venus burning lamp like in the west | D2 |
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| I walked alone amid a thousand flowers | I2 |
| That drooped their heads and drowsed beneath the dew | J |
| And all my thoughts were quieted to sleep | J2 |
| Behind me on the walk I heard a step | K2 |
| I did not know my heart could tell his tread | U |
| I did not know I loved him till that hour | J |
| Within my breast I felt a wild sick pain | L2 |
| The garden reeled a little I was weak | M2 |
| And quick he came behind me caught my arms | N2 |
| That ached beneath his touch and then I swayed | O2 |
| My head fell backward and I saw his face | A2 |
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| All this grows bitter that was once so sweet | N |
| And many mouths must drain the dregs of it | P2 |
| But none will pity me nor pity him | Q2 |
| Whom Love so lashed and with such cruel thongs | A2 |
Sara Teasdale
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