A Jacobite's Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DAGAHA IEEE JDKD JEEELE MDND JOIO ADFDED EPIP QNRD AEJEAE NSPT RQUQ ANANNN ANNN TNLN NILIVI| The weary day runs down and dies | A |
| The weary night wears through | B |
| And never an hour is fair wi' flower | C |
| And never a flower wi' dew | B |
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| I would the day were night for me | D |
| I would the night were day | E |
| For then would I stand in my ain fair land | F |
| As now in dreams I may | E |
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| O lordly flow the Loire and Seine | D |
| And loud the dark Durance | A |
| But bonnier shine the braes of Tyne | G |
| Than a' the fields of France | A |
| And the waves of Till that speak sae still | H |
| Gleam goodlier where they glance | A |
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| O weel were they that fell fighting | I |
| On dark Drumossie's day | E |
| They keep their hame ayont the faem | E |
| And we die far away | E |
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| O sound they sleep and saft and deep | J |
| But night and day wake we | D |
| And ever between the sea banks green | K |
| Sounds loud the sundering sea | D |
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| And ill we sleep sae sair we weep | J |
| But sweet and fast sleep they | E |
| And the mool that haps them roun' and laps them | E |
| Is e'en their country's clay | E |
| But the land we tread that are not dead | L |
| Is strange as night by day | E |
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| Strange as night in a strange man's sight | M |
| Though fair as dawn it be | D |
| For what is here that a stranger's cheer | N |
| Should yet wax blithe to see | D |
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| The hills stand steep the dells lie deep | J |
| The fields are green and gold | O |
| The hill streams sing and the hill sides ring | I |
| As ours at home of old | O |
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| But hills and flowers are nane of ours | A |
| And ours are over sea | D |
| And the kind strange land whereon we stand | F |
| It wotsna what were we | D |
| Or ever we came wi' scathe and shame | E |
| To try what end might be | D |
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| Scathe and shame and a waefu' name | E |
| And a weary time and strange | P |
| Have they that seeing a weird for dreeing | I |
| Can die and cannot change | P |
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| Shame and scorn may we thole that mourn | Q |
| Though sair be they to dree | N |
| But ill may we bide the thoughts we hide | R |
| Mair keen than wind and sea | D |
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| Ill may we thole the night's watches | A |
| And ill the weary day | E |
| And the dreams that keep the gates of sleep | J |
| A waefu' gift gie they | E |
| For the songs they sing us the sights they bring us | A |
| The morn blaws all away | E |
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| On Aikenshaw the sun blinks braw | N |
| The burn rins blithe and fain | S |
| There's nought wi' me I wadna gie | P |
| To look thereon again | T |
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| On Keilder side the wind blaws wide | R |
| There sounds nae hunting horn | Q |
| That rings sae sweet as the winds that beat | U |
| Round banks where Tyne is born | Q |
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| The Wansbeck sings with all her springs | A |
| The bents and braes give ear | N |
| But the wood that rings wi' the sang she sings | A |
| I may not see nor hear | N |
| For far and far thae blithe burns are | N |
| And strange is a' thing near | N |
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| The light there lightens the day there brightens | A |
| The loud wind there lives free | N |
| Nae light comes nigh me or wind blaws by me | N |
| That I wad hear or see | N |
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| But O gin I were there again | T |
| Afar ayont the faem | N |
| Cauld and dead in the sweet saft bed | L |
| That haps my sires at hame | N |
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| We'll see nae mair the sea banks fair | N |
| And the sweet grey gleaming sky | I |
| And the lordly strand of Northumberland | L |
| And the goodly towers thereby | I |
| And none shall know but the winds that blow | V |
| The graves wherein we lie | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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