The Romance Of The Knight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH IIJJKKLMEECCJJNNOOPQ C R S JJCCT UUVVW| The pleasing sweets of spring and summer past | A |
| The falling leaf flies in the sultry blast | A |
| The fields resign their spangling orbs of gold | B |
| The wrinkled grass its silver joys unfold | B |
| Mantling the spreading moor in heavenly white | C |
| Meeting from every hill the ravished sight | C |
| The yellow flag uprears its spotted head | D |
| Hanging regardant o'er its watery bed | D |
| The worthy knight ascends his foaming steed | E |
| Of size uncommon and no common breed | E |
| His sword of giant make hangs from his belt | F |
| Whose piercing edge his daring foes had felt | F |
| To seek for glory and renown he goes | G |
| To scatter death among his trembling foes | G |
| Unnerved by fear they trembled at his stroke | H |
| So cutting blasts shake the tall mountain oak | H |
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| Down in a dark and solitary vale | I |
| Where the curst screech owl sings her fatal tale | I |
| Where copse and brambles interwoven lie | J |
| Where trees intwining arch the azure sky | J |
| Thither the fate marked champion bent his way | K |
| By purling streams to lose the heat of day | K |
| A sudden cry assaults his listening ear | L |
| His soul's too noble to admit of fear | M |
| The cry re echoes with his bounding steed | E |
| He gropes the way from whence the cries proceed | E |
| The arching trees above obscured the light | C |
| Here 'twas all evening there eternal night | C |
| And now the rustling leaves and strengthened cry | J |
| Bespeaks the cause of the confusion nigh | J |
| Through the thick brake th'astonished champion sees | N |
| A weeping damsel bending on her knees | N |
| A ruffian knight would force her to the ground | O |
| But still some small resisting strength she found | O |
| Women and cats if you compulsion use | P |
| The pleasure which they die for will refuse | Q |
| The champion thus 'Desist discourteous knight | C |
| Why dost thou shamefully misuse thy might ' | - |
| With eye contemptuous thus the knight replies | R |
| 'Begone whoever dares my fury dies ' | - |
| Down to the ground the champion's gauntlet flew | S |
| 'I dare thy fury and I'll prove it too ' | - |
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| Like two fierce mountain boars enraged they fly | J |
| The prancing steeds make Echo rend the sky | J |
| Like a fierce tempest is the bloody fight | C |
| Dead from his lofty steed falls the proud ruffian knight | C |
| The victor sadly pleased accosts the dame | T |
| 'I will convey you hence to whence you came ' | - |
| With look of gratitude the fair replied | U |
| 'Content I in your virtue may confide | U |
| But ' said the fair as mournful she surveyed | V |
| The breathless corse upon the meadow laid | V |
| 'May all thy sins from heaven forgiveness find | W |
| May not thy body's crimes affect thy mind ' | - |
Thomas Chatterton
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