Exactly, on knowing when to preserve a feature of the original -- which is sometimes harder than others. It's ... an interesting challenge.

Reynold's is definitely preferable to Rose, for the first line order. The poem as a whole plays around with the possible pairings -- there are two lady knights of major plot importance (one from each side) and there are knights that get lost in love (most notably Orlando, who goes mad for disappointed love). Which just goes to show it's an epic chivalric romance.

---L.