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The Lay Of Talbot, The Troubadour. A Legend Of Lacock Abbey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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	A
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PART FIRST	B
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At Rouen Richard kept his state	C
Released from captive thrall	D
And girt with many a warrior guest	E
He feasted in the hall	D
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The rich metheglin mantled high	F
The wine was berry red	G
When tidings came that Salisbury	H
His early friend was dead	G
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And that his sole surviving child	I
The heiress of his wealth	J
By crafty kinsmen and allies	K
Was borne away by stealth	J
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Was borne away from Normandy	H
Where secretly confined	L
She heard no voice of those she loved	M
But sighed to the north wind	L
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Haply from some lone castle's tower	N
Or solitary strand	O
Even now she gazes o'er the deep	P
That laves her father's land	O
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King Richard cries My minstrel knights	Q
Who will the task achieve	R
To seek through France and Normandy	H
The orphan left to grieve	R
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Young William Talbot then did speak	S
Betide me weal or woe	T
From Michael's castle through the land	O
A pilgrim I will go	T
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He clad him in his pilgrim weeds	U
With trusty staff in hand	O
And scallop shell and took his way	V
A wanderer through the land	O
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For two long years he journeyed on	W
A pilgrim day by day	V
Through many a forest dark and drear	N
By many a castle gray	N
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At length when one clear morn of frost	X
Was shining on the main	Y
Forth issuing from a castle gate	C
He saw a female train	Y
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With lightsome step and waving hair	N
Before them ran a child	I
And gathering from the sands a shell	Z
Ran back to them and smiled	I
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Himself unseen among the rocks	A2
He saw her point her hand	O
And cry I would go home go home	B2
To my poor father's land	O
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The bell tolled from the turret gray	N
Cold freezing fell the dew	C2
To the portcullis hastening back	D2
The female train withdrew	C2
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Those turrets and the battlements	E2
Time and the storm had beat	F2
And sullenly the ocean tide	G2
Came rolling at his feet	F2
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Young Talbot cast away his staff	H2
The harp is in his hand	O
A minstrel at the castle gate	C
A porter saw him stand	O
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And who art thou the porter cried	G2
Young troubadour now say	N
For welcome in the castle hall	D
Will be to night thy lay	N
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For this the birthday is of one	I2
Whose father now is cold	J2
An English maiden rich in fee	H
And this year twelve years old	J2
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I love myself now growing old	J2
To hear the wild harp's sound	K2
But whence young harper dost thou come	L2
And whither art thou bound	K2
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Though I am young the harper said	G
From Syria's sands I come	L2
A minstrel warrior of the Cross	M2
Now poor and wandering home	B2
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And I can tell of mighty deeds	U
By bold King Richard done	I2
King Richard of the Lion's heart	N2
Foes quail to look upon	W
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Then lead me to the castle hall	D
And let the fire be bright	O2
For never hall nor bower hath heard	P2
A lay like mine to night	O2
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The windows gleam within the hall	D
The fire is blazing bright	O2
And the young harper's hair and harp	Q2
Are shining in the light	O2
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Fair dames and warriors clad in steel	R2
Now gather round to hear	N
And oft that little maiden's eyes	K
Are glistening with a tear	N
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For when the minstrel sang of wars	S2
At times with softer sound	K2
He touched the chords as mourning those	T2
Now laid in the cold ground	K2
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He sang how brave King Richard pined	L
In a dark tower immured	L
And of the long and weary nights	Q
A captive he endured	L
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The faithful Blondel to his harp	Q2
One song began to sing	U2
It ceased the king takes up the strain	Y
It is his lord and king	U2
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Of Sarum then and Sarum's plain	Y
That poor child heard him speak	S
When the first tear drop in her eye	F
Fell silent on her cheek	S
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For as the minstrel told his tale	V2
The breathless orphan maid	L
Thought of the land where in the grave	W2
Her father's bones were laid	L
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Hush hush the winds are piping loud	L
The midnight hour is sped	L
The hours of morn are stealing fast	L
Harper to bed to bed	L
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PART SECOND	L
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The two long years had passed away	N
When castle Galliard rose	T2
As built at once by elfin hands	X2
And scorning time or foes	T2
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It might be thought that Merlin's imps	T2
Were tasked to raise the wall	D
That unheard axes fell the woods	T2
While unseen hammers fall	D
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As hung by magic on a rock	Y2
The castle keep looked down	Z2
O'er rocks and rivers and the smoke	A3
Of many a far off town	Z2
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And now young knights and minstrels gay	N
Obeyed their masters' call	D
And loud rejoicing held the feast	L
In the new raftered hall	D
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His minstrels and his mailed peers	T2
Were seated at the board	L
And at his side the highest sat	L
William of the Long Sword	L
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This youthful knight of princely birth	B3
Was dazzling to behold	L
For his chain mail from head to foot	L
All glistened o'er with gold	L
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His surcoat dyed with azure blue	C2
In graceful foldings hung	C3
And there the golden lions ramped	L
With bloody claws and tongue	C3
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With crimson belt around his waist	L
His sword was girded on	W
The hilt a cross to kiss in death	D3
Radiant with jewels shone	E3
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The names and banners of each knight	L
It were too long to tell	Z
Here sat the brave Montgomery	H
There Bertrand and Rozell	F3
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Of Richard's unresisted sword	L
A noble minstrel sung	C3
Whilst to an hundred answering harps	T2
The blazing gallery rung	C3
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So all within was merriment	L
When suddenly a shout	L
As of some unexpected guest	L
Burst from the crowd without	L
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Now not a sound and scarce a breath	D3
Through the long hall is heard	L
When with a young maid by his side	L
A vizored knight appeared	L
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Up the long hall they held their way	N
On to the royal seat	L
Then both together hand in hand	L
Knelt at King Richard's feet	L
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Talbot a Talbot rang the hall	D
With gratulation wild	L
Long live brave Talbot and long live	G3
Earl William's new found child	L
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Amid a scene so new and strange	H3
This poor maid could not speak	S
King Richard took her by the hand	L
And gently kissed her cheek	S
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Then placed her smiling through a tear	N
By his brave brother's side	L
Long live brave Longspe rang the hall	D
Long live his future bride	L
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To noble Richard this fair child	L
His ward was thus restored	L
Destined to be the future bride	L
Of Him of the Long Sword	L