The fronted prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial still carries a pattern of lexical repetition, but when the knight is introduced everything relates to his location:
So the pattern of lexico-grammatical repetition changes when the knight is introduced and the 'camera' focuses in on different aspects of the bed/tomb. This clearly establishes the dying knight and those around him as the major focus of attention in the poem.
There are also a number of other changes which take place at the introduction of the knight and are paralleled through this section of the poem:
The tense in line 1 changes from past to present (cf. the '-eth' endings).
The dummy subject 'there' is also omitted in line 1 from now on.
The verb in line 1 changes from 'be' to a verb indicating a state or activity ('lieth', 'kneeleth', 'standeth'). Moreover, there is a clear upwards, and so climactic, progression in these verbs:
In the line 2 of each of these stanzas, where we are told about the activity of the knight or those surrounding him, that activity is now marked as continuous, either through the use of continuous verb forms ('bleeding', licking') or through the adverbial expression 'night and day' or both. Before this, there was no such continuousness.
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