And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite[…].

‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

Rahm Emanuel was certainly a surprising choice for chief of staff — he's a hard-cussing, old-school-campaign knife fighter and pragmatic congressional arm twister who plays to win.

The African song gets its effect from an accumulation of details, statements and imagery, and in the variation of the tone and attitude of the poet-reciter to the object of praise.