Requiescat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EFG HHH III| Under the stone you behold | A |
| Buried and coffined and cold | A |
| Lieth Sir Wilfrid the Bold | A |
| - | |
| Always he marched in advance | B |
| Warring in Flanders and France | B |
| Doughty with sword and with lance | B |
| - | |
| Famous in Saracen fight | C |
| Rode in his youth the good knight | C |
| Scattering Paynims in flight | C |
| - | |
| Brian the Templar untrue | D |
| Fairly in tourney he slew | D |
| Saw Hierusalem too | D |
| - | |
| Now he is buried and gone | E |
| Lying beneath the gray stone | F |
| Where shall you find such a one | G |
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| Long time his widow deplored | H |
| Weeping the fate of her lord | H |
| Sadly cut off by the sword | H |
| - | |
| When she was eased of her pain | I |
| Came the good Lord Athelstane | I |
| When her ladyship married again | I |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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