In the thirteenth stanza, the appearance of a "stiff blind horse" beyond "service from the devil's stud" causes the speaker to conclude "he must be wicked to deserve such pain.
In the thirteenth stanza, the appearance of a "stiff blind horse" beyond "service from the devil's stud" causes the speaker to conclude "he must be wicked to deserve such pain." The speaker remembers the disgrace of Cuthbert and Giles, and while fording a river, compares the noise made by a speared water-rat to "a baby's shriek." In the opening stanzas, a "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" directs the speaker into an "ominous tract" where he searches for, and encounters, the title structure. Based on Edgar's song in King Lear, it ends with the title character placing a slug-horn to his lips. FTP, name this poem by Robert Browning about an aspiring knight's arrival at the title turret.
In the thirteenth stanza, the appearance of a "stiff blind horse" beyond "service from the devil's stud" causes the speaker to conclude "he must be wicked to deserve such pain.
“{Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came}”