For The Briar-rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBAA C DDAA A AAEE F GGHH| The Briarwood | A |
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| The fateful slumber floats and flows | B |
| About the tangle of the rose | B |
| But lo the fated hand and heart | A |
| To rend the slumberous curse apart | A |
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| The Council Room | C |
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| The threat of war the hope of peace | D |
| The Kingdom s peril and increase | D |
| Sleep on and bide the latter day | A |
| When fate shall take her chain away | A |
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| The Garden Court | A |
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| The maiden pleasance of the land | A |
| Knoweth no stir of voice or hand | A |
| No cup the sleeping waters fill | E |
| The restless shuttle lieth still | E |
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| The Rosebower | F |
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| Here lies the hoarded love the key | G |
| To all the treasure that shall be | G |
| Come fated hand the gift to take | H |
| And smite this sleeping world awake | H |
William Morris
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