The Barefooted Friar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFBB GEDD DDBB HHIB JJBB| I'll give thee good fellow a twelvemonth or twain | A |
| To search Europe through from Byzantium to Spain | A |
| But ne'er shall you find should you search till you tire | B |
| So happy a man as the Barefooted Friar | B |
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| Your knight for his lady pricks forth in career | C |
| And is brought home at even song bunny'd through with a spear | C |
| I confess him in haste for his lady desires | D |
| No comfort on earth save the Barefooted Friar's | D |
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| Your monarch Pshaw many a prince has been known | E |
| To barter his robes for our cowl and our gown | F |
| But which of us e'er felt the idle desire | B |
| To exchange for a crown the grey hood of a Friar | B |
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| The Friar has walk'd out and where'er he has gone | G |
| The land and its fatness is mark'd for his own | E |
| He can roam where he lists he can stop when he tires | D |
| For every man's house is the Barefooted Friar's | D |
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| He's expected at noon and no wight till he comes | D |
| May profane the great chair or the porridge of plums | D |
| For the best of the cheer and the seat by the fire | B |
| Is the undenied right of the Barefooted Friar | B |
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| He's expected at night and the pasty's made hot | H |
| They broach the brown ale and they fill the black pot | H |
| And the goodwife would wish the goodman in the mire | I |
| Ere he lack'd a soft pillow the Barefooted Friar | B |
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| Long flourish the sandal the cord and the cope | J |
| The dread of the devil and trust of the Pope | J |
| For to gather life's roses unscathed by the briar | B |
| Is granted alone to the Barefooted Friar | B |
Sir Walter Scott
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