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The Black Knight

John Todhunter 1839 (Dublin) – 1916

1.

A beaten and a baffled man,
My life drags lamely day by day,
Too young to die, too old to plan,
In failure grey.

2.

The knights ride east, the knights ride west,
For ladyes' tokens blithe of cheer,
Each bound upon some gallant quest;
While I rust here.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CXCX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 260
Words 52
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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