Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Don't take my rating too seriously. Whenever I read something like this, I realize that I have no idea how to read poetry that isn't in a rhyming meter or basically anything except for iambic pentameter. I end up feeling pretty dumb. I get lost in all the line indents, the stanzas, never knowing where to pause or what to do. Reading aloud is no help (at least with this, the O'Donoghue translation). I always feel like I'm stumbling around a dark maze blindfolded.

At least this version that I found in a little library has some lovely notations in it from a previous reader.