Rapunzel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THE PRINCE being in the wood near the tower in the evening	A
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I could not even think	B
What made me weep that day	C
When out of the council hall	D
The courtiers pass'd away	C
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THE WITCH	E
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	D
Let down your hair	F
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RAPUNZEL	D
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Is it not true that every day	C
She climbeth up the same strange way	C
Her scarlet cloak spread broad and gay	C
Over my golden hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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And left me there alone	H
To think on what they said	I
'Thou art a king's own son	J
'Tis fit that thou should'st wed '	-
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THE WITCH	E
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	D
Let down your hair	F
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RAPUNZEL	D
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When I undo the knotted mass	K
Fathoms below the shadows pass	K
Over my hair along the grass	K
O my golden hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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I put my armour on	L
Thinking on what they said	I
'Thou art a king's own son	J
'Tis fit that thou should'st wed '	-
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THE WITCH	E
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	D
Let down your hair	F
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RAPUNZEL	D
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See on the marble parapet	M
I lean my brow strive to forget	M
That fathoms below my hair grows wet	M
With the dew my golden hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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I rode throughout the town	N
Men did not bow the head	I
Though I was the king's own son	J
He rides to dream they said	I
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THE WITCH	E
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	D
Wind up your hair	F
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RAPUNZEL	D
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See on the marble parapet	M
The faint red stains with tears are wet	M
The long years pass no help comes yet	M
To free my golden hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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For leagues and leagues I rode	O
Till hot my armour grew	P
Till underneath the leaves	Q
I felt the evening dew	P
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THE WITCH	E
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	D
Weep through your hair	F
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RAPUNZEL	D
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And yet but I am growing old	R
For want of love my heart is cold	R
Years pass the while I loose and fold	R
The fathoms of my hair	F
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THE PRINCE in the morning	A
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I have heard tales of men who in the night	S
Saw paths of stars let down to earth from heaven	J
Who followed them until they reach'd the light	S
Wherein they dwell whose sins are all forgiven	J
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But who went backward when they saw the gate	T
Of diamond nor dared to enter in	U
All their life long they were content to wait	T
Purging them patiently of every sin	U
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I must have had a dream of some such thing	A
And now am just awaking from that dream	V
For even in grey dawn those strange words ring	A
Through heart and brain and still I see that gleam	V
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For in my dream at sunset time I lay	D
Beneath these beeches mail and helmet off	W
Right full of joy that I had come away	D
From court for I was patient of the scoff	W
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That met me always there from day to day	D
From any knave or coward of them all	D
I was content to live that wretched way	D
For truly till I left the council hall	D
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And rode forth arm'd beneath the burning sun	J
My gleams of happiness were faint and few	P
But then I saw my real life had begun	J
And that I should be strong quite well I knew	P
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For I was riding out to look for love	X
Therefore the birds within the thickets sung	Y
Even in hot noontide as I pass'd above	X
The elms o'ersway'd with longing towards me hung	Y
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Now some few fathoms from the place where I	Z
Lay in the beech wood was a tower fair	F
The marble corners faint against the sky	Z
And dreamily I wonder'd what lived there	F
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Because it seem'd a dwelling for a queen	A2
No belfry for the swinging of great bells	B2
No bolt or stone had ever crush'd the green	A2
Shafts amber and rose walls no soot that tells	B2
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Of the Norse torches burning up the roofs	C2
On the flower carven marble could I see	D2
But rather on all sides I saw the proofs	C2
Of a great loneliness that sicken'd me	D2
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Making me feel a doubt that was not fear	E2
Whether my whole life long had been a dream	V
And I should wake up soon in some place where	F
The piled up arms of the fighting angels gleam	V
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Not born as yet but going to be born	F2
No naked baby as I was at first	G2
But an armed knight whom fire hate and scorn	F2
Could turn from nothing my heart almost burst	G2
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Beneath the beeches as I lay a dreaming	A
I tried so hard to read this riddle through	P
To catch some golden cord that I saw gleaming	A
Like gossamer against the autumn blue	P
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But while I ponder'd these things from the wood	H2
There came a black hair'd woman tall and bold	R
Who strode straight up to where the tower stood	H2
And cried out shrilly words whereon behold	R
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THE WITCH from the tower	I2
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Rapunzel Rapunzel	P
Let down your hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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Ah Christ it was no dream then but there stood	H2
She comes again a maiden passing fair	F
Against the roof with face turn'd to the wood	H2
Bearing within her arms waves of her yellow hair	F
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I read my riddle when I saw her stand	J2
Poor love her face quite pale against her hair	F
Praying to all the leagues of empty land	J2
To save her from the woe she suffer'd there	F
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To think they trod upon her golden hair	F
In the witches' sabbaths it was a delight	S
For these foul things while she with thin feet bare	F
Stood on the roof upon the winter night	S
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To plait her dear hair into many plaits	K2
And then while God's eye look'd upon the thing	A
In the very likenesses of Devil's bats	L2
Upon the ends of her long hair to swing	A
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And now she stood above the parapet	M
And spreading out her arms let her hair flow	P
Beneath that veil her smooth white forehead set	M
Upon the marble more I do not know	P
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Because before my eyes a film of gold	R
Floated as now it floats O unknown love	X
Would that I could thy yellow stair behold	R
If still thou standest the lead roof above	X
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THE WITCH as she passes	M2
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Is there any who will dare	F
To climb up the yellow stair	F
Glorious Rapunzel's golden hair	F
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THE PRINCE	G
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If it would please God make you sing again	N2
I think that I might very sweetly die	Z
My soul somehow reach heaven in joyous pain	O2
My heavy body on the beech nuts lie	Z
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Now I remember what a most strange year	E2
Most strange and awful in the beechen wood	H2
I have pass'd now I still have a faint fear	E2
It is a kind of dream not understood	H2
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I have seen no one in this wood except	P2
The witch and her have heard no human tones	Q2
But when the witches' revelry has crept	P2
Between the very jointing of my bones	Q2
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Ah I know now I could not go away	D
But needs must stop to hear her sing that song	R2
She always sings at dawning of the day	D
I am not happy here for I am strong	R2
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And every morning do I whet my sword	S2
Yet Rapunzel still weeps within the tower	I2
And still God ties me down to the green sward	S2
Because I cannot see the gold stair floating lower	I2
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RAPUNZEL sings from the tower	I2
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My mother taught me prayers	T2
To say when I had need	U2
I have so many cares	T2
That I can take no heed	U2
Of many words in them	V2
But I remember this	W2
Christ bring me to thy bliss	W2
Mary maid withouten wem	V2
Keep me I am lone I wis	W2
Yet besides I have made this	W2
By myself Give me a kiss	W2
Dear God dwelling up in heaven	J
Also Send me a true knight	S
Lord Christ with a steel sword bright	S
Broad and trenchant yea and seven	J
Spans from hilt to point O Lord	S2
And let the handle of his sword	S2
Be gold on silver Lord in heaven	J
Such a sword as I see gleam	V2
Sometimes when they let me dream	V2
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Yea besides I have made this	W2
Lord give Mary a dear kiss	W2
And let gold Michael who looked down	N
When I was there on Rouen town	N
From the spire bring me that kiss	W2
On a lily Lord do this	W2
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These prayers on the dreadful nights	X2
When the witches plait my hair	F
And the fearfullest of sights	X2
On the earth and in the air	F
Will not let me close my eyes	Y2
I murmur often mix'd with sighs	Y2
That my weak heart will not hold	R
At some things that I behold	R
Nay not sighs but quiet groans	Q2
That swell out the little bones	Q2
Of my bosom till a trance	Z2
God sends in middle of that dance	Z2
And I behold the countenance	A3
Of Michael and can feel no more	B3
The bitter east wind biting sore	B3
My naked feet can see no more	B3
The crayfish on the leaden floor	B3
That mock with feeler and grim claw	P
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Yea often in that happy trance	Z2
Beside the blessed countenance	A3
Of golden Michael on the spire	C3
Glowing all crimson in the fire	I2
Of sunset I behold a face	D3
Which sometime if God give me grace	D3
May kiss me in this very place	D3
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Evening in the tower	I2
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RAPUNZEL	P
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It grows half way between the dark and light	S
Love we have been six hours here alone	H
I fear that she will come before the night	S
And if she finds us thus we are undone	J
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THE PRINCE	G
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Nay draw a little nearer that your breath	E3
May touch my lips let my cheek feel your arm	V2
Now tell me did you ever see a death	E3
Or ever see a man take mortal harm	V2
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RAPUNZEL	P
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Once came two knights and fought with swords below	P
And while they fought I scarce could look at all	P
My head swam so after a moaning low	P
Drew my eyes down I saw against the wall	P
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One knight lean dead bleeding from head and breast	F3
Yet seem'd it like a line of poppies red	I
In the golden twilight as he took his rest	F3
In the dusky time he scarcely seemed dead	I
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But the other on his face six paces off	W
Lay moaning and the old familiar name	V2
He mutter'd through the grass seem'd like a scoff	W
Of some lost soul remembering his past fame	V2
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His helm all dinted lay beside him there	F
The visor bars were twisted towards the face	D3
The crest which was a lady very fair	F
Wrought wonderfully was shifted from its place	D3
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The shower'd mail rings on the speedwell lay	P
Perhaps my eyes were dazzled with the light	S
That blazed in the west yet surely on that day	P
Some crimson thing had changed the grass from bright	S
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Pure green I love so But the knight who died	G3
Lay there for days after the other went	H3
Until one day I heard a voice that cried	G3
Fair knight I see Sir Robert we were sent	H3
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To carry dead or living to the king	A
So the knights came and bore him straight away	P
On their lance truncheons such a batter'd thing	A
His mother had not known him on that day	P
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But for his helm crest a gold lady fair	F
Wrought wonderfully	P
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THE PRINCE	G
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Ah they were brothers then	N2
And often rode together doubtless where	F
The swords were thickest and were loyal men	N2
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Until they fell in these same evil dreams	I3
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RAPUNZEL	P
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Yea love but shall we not depart from hence	J3
The white moon groweth golden fast and gleams	I3
Between the aspens stems I fear and yet a sense	J3
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Of fluttering victory comes over me	P
That will not let me fear aright my heart	K3
Feel how it beats love strives to get to thee	P
I breathe so fast that my lips needs must part	K3
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Your breath swims round my mouth but let us go	P
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THE PRINCE	G
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I Sebald also pluck from off the staff	L3
The crimson banner let it lie below	P
Above it in the wind let grasses laugh	L3
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Now let us go love down the winding stair	F
With fingers intertwined ay feel my sword	S2
I wrought it long ago with golden hair	F
Flowing about the hilts because a word	M3
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Sung by a minstrel old had set me dreaming	A
Of a sweet bow'd down face with yellow hair	F
Betwixt green leaves I used to see it gleaming	A
A half smile on the lips though lines of care	F
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Had sunk the cheeks and made the great eyes hollow	P
What other work in all the world had I	Z
But through all turns of fate that face to follow	P
But wars and business kept me there to die	Z
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O child I should have slain my brother too	P
My brother Love lain moaning in the grass	K
Had I not ridden out to look for you	P
When I had watch'd the gilded courtiers pass	K
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From the golden hall But it is strange your name	V2
Is not the same the minstrel sung of yore	B3
You call'd it Rapunzel 'tis not the name	V2
See love the stems shine through the open door	B3
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Morning in the woods	N3
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RAPUNZEL	P
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O love me and my unknown name you have well won	J
The witch's name was Rapunzel eh not so sweet	O3
No but is this real grass love that I tread upon	L
What call they these blue flowers that lean across my feet	O3
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THE PRINCE	G
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Dip down your dear face in the dewy grass O love	X
And ever let the sweet slim harebells tenderly hung	Y
Kiss both your parted lips and I will hang above	X
And try to sing that song the dreamy harper sung	Y
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He sings	P3
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'Twixt the sunlight and the shade	Q3
Float up memories of my maid	Q3
God remember Guendolen	L
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Gold or gems she did not wear	F
But her yellow rippled hair	F
Like a veil hid Guendolen	L
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'Twixt the sunlight and the shade	Q3
My rough hands so strangely made	Q3
Folded Golden Guendolen	L
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Hands used to grip the sword hilt hard	R3
Framed her face while on the sward	S2
Tears fell down from Guendolen	L
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Guendolen now speaks no word	M3
Hands fold round about the sword	S2
Now no more of Guendolen	L
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Only 'twixt the light and shade	Q3
Floating memories of my maid	Q3
Make me pray for Guendolen	L
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GUENDOLEN	L
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I kiss thee new found name but I will never go	P
Your hands need never grip the hammer'd sword again	L
But all my golden hair shall ever round you flow	P
Between the light and shade from Golden Guendolen	L
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Afterwards in the Palace	S3
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KING SEBALD	T3
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I took my armour off	W
Put on king's robes of gold	R
Over the kirtle green	L
The gold fell fold on fold	R
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THE WITCH out of hell	P
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Guendolen Guendolen	L
One lock of hair	F
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GUENDOLEN	L
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I am so glad for every day	P
He kisses me much the same way	P
As in the tower under the sway	P
Of all my golden hair	F
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KING SEBALD	T3
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We rode throughout the town	L
A gold crown on my head	I
Through all the gold hung streets	U3
Praise God the people said	I
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THE WITCH	E
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Gwendolen Guendolen	L
Lend me your hair	F
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GUENDOLEN	L
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Verily I seem like one	L
Who when day is almost done	L
Through a thick wood meets the sun	L
That blazes in her hair	F
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KING SEBALD	T3
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Yea at the palace gates	K2
Praise God the great knights said	I
For Sebald the high king	A
And the lady's golden head	I
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THE WITCH	E
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Woe is me Guendolen	L
Sweeps back her hair	F
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GUENDOLEN	L
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Nothing wretched now no screams	I3
I was unhappy once in dreams	I3
And even now a harsh voice seems	I3
To hang about my hair	F
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THE WITCH	E
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WOE THAT ANY MAN COULD DARE	F
TO CLIMB UP THE YELLOW STAIR	F
GLORIOUS GUENDOLEN'S GOLDEN HAIR	F

William Morris

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