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