The Brave Roland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGF HIJKKL MMNOON PPQRRQ DDSTQS| The brave Roland the brave Roland | A |
| False tidings reached the Rhenish strand | B |
| That he had fallen in fight | C |
| And thy faithful bosom swooned with pain | D |
| O loveliest maiden of All mayne | D |
| For the loss of thine own true knight | C |
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| But why so rash has she ta'en the veil | E |
| In yon Nonnenwerder's choisters pale | E |
| For her vow had scarce been sworn | F |
| And the fatal mantle o'er her flung | G |
| When the Drachenfels to a trumpet rung | G |
| 'Twas her own dear warrior 's horn | F |
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| Woe woe each heart shall bleed shall break | H |
| She would have hung upon his neck | I |
| Had he come but yester even | J |
| And he had clasped those peerless charms | K |
| That shall never never fill his arms | K |
| Or meet him but in heaven | L |
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| Yet Roland the brave Roland the true | M |
| He could not bid that spot adieu | M |
| It was dear still 'midst his woes | N |
| For he loved to breathe the neighbouring air | O |
| And to think she blessed him in her prayer | O |
| When the Halleluiah rose | N |
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| There 's yet one window of that pile | P |
| Which he built above the Nun's green isle | P |
| Thence sad and oft looked he | Q |
| When the chant and organ sounded slow | R |
| On the mansion of his love below | R |
| For herself he might not see | Q |
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| She died He sought the battle plain | D |
| Her image filled his dying brain | D |
| When he fell and wished to fall | S |
| And her name was in his latest sigh | T |
| When Roland the flower of chivalry | Q |
| Exired at Roncevall | S |
Thomas Campbell
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