The Black Knight's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD ACDD ECFD A GCGD HCHD ICID J ECID| Knight And Wamba | A |
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| There came three merry men from south west and north | B |
| Ever more sing the roundelay | C |
| To win the Widow of Wycombe forth | B |
| And where was the widow might say them nay | D |
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| The first was a knight and from Tynedale he came | A |
| Ever more sing the roundelay | C |
| And his fathers God save us were men of great faine | D |
| And where was the widow might say him nay | D |
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| Of his father the laird of his uncle the squire | E |
| He boasted in rhyme and in roundelay | C |
| She bade him go bask by his sea coal fire | F |
| For she was the widow would say him nay | D |
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| Wamba | A |
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| The next that came forth swore by blood and by nails | G |
| Merrily sing the roundelay | C |
| Hur's a gentleman God wot and hur's lineage was of Wales | G |
| And where was the widow might say him nay | D |
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| Sir David ap Morgan ap Griffith ap Hugh | H |
| Ap Tudor ap Rhice quoth his roundelay | C |
| She said that one widow for so many was too few | H |
| And she bade the Welshman wend his way | D |
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| But then next came a yeoman a yeoman of Kent | I |
| Jollily singing his roundelay | C |
| He spoke to the widow of living and rent | I |
| And where was the widow could say him nay | D |
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| Both | J |
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| So the knight and the squire were both left in the mire | E |
| There for to sing their roundelay | C |
| For a yeoman of Kent with his yearly rent | I |
| There never was a widow could say him nay | D |
Sir Walter Scott
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