Sir Guy The Crusader Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB CDDCD EFFEF GHHGH AFFAF CBBCB AFFAF IJJIJ KLLKL IKKKK CMMCM KKKAK ANNAN| Sir GUY was a doughty crusader | A |
| A muscular knight | B |
| Ever ready to fight | B |
| A very determined invader | A |
| And DICKEY DE LION'S delight | B |
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| LENORE was a Saracen maiden | C |
| Brunette statuesque | D |
| The reverse of grotesque | D |
| Her pa was a bagman from Aden | C |
| Her mother she played in burlesque | D |
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| A CORYPHEE pretty and loyal | E |
| In amber and red | F |
| The ballet she led | F |
| Her mother performed at the Royal | E |
| LENORE at the Saracen's Head | F |
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| Of face and of figure majestic | G |
| She dazzled the cits | H |
| Ecstaticised pits | H |
| Her troubles were only domestic | G |
| But drove her half out of her wits | H |
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| Her father incessantly lashed her | A |
| On water and bread | F |
| She was grudgingly fed | F |
| Whenever her father he thrashed her | A |
| Her mother sat down on her head | F |
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| GUY saw her and loved her with reason | C |
| For beauty so bright | B |
| Sent him mad with delight | B |
| He purchased a stall for the season | C |
| And sat in it every night | B |
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| His views were exceedingly proper | A |
| He wanted to wed | F |
| So he called at her shed | F |
| And saw her progenitor whop her | A |
| Her mother sit down on her head | F |
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| quot So pretty quot said he quot and so trusting | I |
| You brute of a dad | J |
| You unprincipled cad | J |
| Your conduct is really disgusting | I |
| Come come now admit it's too bad | J |
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| quot You're a turbaned old Turk and malignant | K |
| Your daughter LENORE | L |
| I intensely adore | L |
| And I cannot help feeling indignant | K |
| A fact that I hinted before | L |
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| quot To see a fond father employing | I |
| A deuce of a knout | K |
| For to bang her about | K |
| To a sensitive lover's annoying quot | K |
| Said the bagman quot Crusader get out quot | K |
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| Says GUY quot Shall a warrior laden | C |
| With a big spiky knob | M |
| Sit in peace on his cob | M |
| While a beautiful Saracen maiden | C |
| Is whipped by a Saracen snob | M |
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| quot To London I'll go from my charmer quot | K |
| Which he did with his loot | K |
| Seven hats and a flute | K |
| And was nabbed for his Sydenham armour | A |
| At MR BEN SAMUEL'S suit | K |
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| SIR GUY he was lodged in the Compter | A |
| Her pa in a rage | N |
| Died don't know his age | N |
| His daughter she married the prompter | A |
| Grew bulky and quitted the stage | N |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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