The Knight-errant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDF DGDG HIHI DJDJ KKKK ADAD LMLM LNON| Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire | A |
| To right the world's wrongs and champion truth | B |
| Deep in his eyes shone a heaven lit fire | A |
| And royal and radiant day dreams of youth | B |
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| Gracious was he to both beggar and stranger | A |
| And for a rose tossed from fair finger tips | C |
| He would have ridden hard pressed through all danger | A |
| The rose on his heart and a song on his lips | C |
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| All the king's foes he counted his foemen | D |
| His not to say that a cause could be lost | E |
| Spirits like his faced the enemies' bowmen | D |
| On long vanished fields nor counted the cost | F |
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| Wide was his out look and far was his vision | D |
| Soul fretting trifles he sent down the wind | G |
| Small griefs gained only his cheerful derision | D |
| God's weather always was fair to his mind | G |
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| But he would comfort a child who was crying | H |
| Knightly his deed to all such in distress | I |
| Never a beast by the road side lay dying | H |
| He did not stoop to with gentle caress | I |
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| And by the old and the sad and the broken | D |
| Often he lingered a well beloved guest | J |
| Dear was his voice whatever the word spoken | D |
| Sweetening their day with a song or a jest | J |
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| In the far times of brave ballad and story | K |
| Men of his make kept the gates of the sea | K |
| Wrought mighty deeds of power and glory | K |
| Scattered their tyrants and set the land free | K |
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| In the far times when perchance hearts were stronger | A |
| When for a faith men could face death alone | D |
| And it would seem that love lasted longer | A |
| Such a white soul would have come to its own | D |
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| Down in the city the people but noted | L |
| One who was silent when things went awry | M |
| Toiled at dull tasks and was strangely devoted | L |
| To small deeds of kindness that others passed by | M |
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| Down in the city the people but noted | L |
| One who thought little of wealth and its ways | N |
| One whose true words were full often misquoted | O |
| One who laughed lightly at blame or at praise | N |
Virna Sheard
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