In the last stanza we are finally told pretty explicitly that the 'bed' is really a tomb and that the knight is really Christ ('Corpus Christi written thereon'). So this is another point of great significance in the poem. Not surprisingly, this is marked by changes in the patterns set up when the knight was introduced in the poem:
The item referred to around the bed/tomb of the knight changes from animate ('hound', 'may') to inanimate ('stone').
There is a consequential change in the meaning of 'standeth'. It can no longer literally mean 'stand upright' as in the 'upward progression' account suggested in the commentary which formed our response to question 4. Instead, it has to be interpreted metaphorically and so means something like 'is positioned'. But, because of the upward progression already noted, the implication is that it will be a tall stone, above the tomb, which has the words on it.
In the second line of the stanza, the tense of the verb changes to past
tense and the overall structure changes to that of a passive with the agent
deleted (we don't know who wrote the words).
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