If we take the first line of stanza 2 first, we can notice that it has the following structure: adverbial, subject, verb, complement. The 'he bare him up' pattern has been replaced by one involving the verb 'be' and a dummy subject 'there'. This break with the previous pattern is an example of internal deviation and so indicates a moment of significance when we see inside the orchard (= churchyard??) for the first time. Because of the unusual fronting of the prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial ('in that orchard') the ASVC structure in the first line establishes two points of prominence, the initial adverbial phrase and the end-weighted phrase 'a hall'. Hence significance is also being attached to our entry into the hall.
If we relate the lexis to the grammatical pattern we can notice that the orchard at the end of the last line of stanza 1 is picked up in the fronted adverbial 'in that orchard' at the beginning of stanza 2. This pattern then continues in the next two stanzas. In each case a word at the end of a line in the previous verse is repeated in the fronted 'in that . . .' prepositional phrase in the first line of the next stanza:
Compared with the progression/journey we saw in the refrain and in stanza 1, we now have a 'Chinese boxes' or 'zoom lens' sort of effect, where, once inside the orchard, we gradually focus down onto the knight:
This focusing effect clearly foregrounds the introduction of the knight in the poem.
The second line of each stanza contains additional information (sometimes in the form of a relative clause and sometimes in the form of a conjoined main clause) about the new thing introduced at the end of line 1 of the relevant stanza (the right-hand column in the diagram above).
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