The Bride's Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAADABAAABBEDAAFG FGAADBHBAABIDJAAFGBG AAIDKDAAGDLDAADGDGAA ABBBAAGMAMAABBABAABG GGAABGGGAABGDGAACAAA AAGNBNAAAABAAABGCGAAThe wind wears roun' the day wears doun | A |
The moon is grisly grey | B |
There's nae man rides by the mirk muirsides | C |
Nor down the dark Tyne's way | B |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
And winna ye watch the night wi' me | D |
And winna ye wake the morn | A |
Foul shame it were that your ae mither | B |
Should brook her ae son's scorn | A |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
O mither I may not sleep nor stay | B |
My weird is ill to dree | B |
For a fause faint lord of the south seaboard | E |
Wad win my bride of me | D |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
The winds are strang and the nights are lang | F |
And the ways are sair to ride | G |
And I maun gang to wreak my wrang | F |
And ye maun bide and bide | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
Gin I maun bide and bide Willie | D |
I wot my weird is sair | B |
Weel may ye get ye a light love yet | H |
But never a mither mair | B |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
O gin the morrow be great wi' sorrow | B |
The wyte be yours of a' | I |
But though ye slay me that haud and stay me | D |
The weird ye will maun fa' | J |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
When cocks were crawing and day was dawing | F |
He's boun' him forth to ride | G |
And the ae first may he's met that day | B |
Was fause Earl Robert's bride | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
O blithe and braw were the bride folk a' | I |
But sad and saft rade she | D |
And sad as doom was her fause bridegroom | K |
But fair and fain was he | D |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
And winna ye bide sae saft ye ride | G |
And winna ye speak wi' me | D |
For mony's the word and the kindly word | L |
I have spoken aft wi' thee | D |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
My lamp was lit yestreen Willie | D |
My window gate was wide | G |
But ye camena nigh me till day came by me | D |
And made me not your bride | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
He's set his hand to her bridle rein | A |
He's turned her horse away | B |
And the cry was sair and the wrath was mair | B |
And fast and fain rode they | B |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
But when they came by Chollerford | G |
I wot the ways were fell | M |
For broad and brown the spate swang down | A |
And the lift was mirk as hell | M |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
And will ye ride yon fell water | B |
Or will ye bide for fear | B |
Nae scathe ye'll win o' your father's kin | A |
Though they should slay me here | B |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
I had liefer ride yon fell water | B |
Though strange it be to ride | G |
Than I wad stand on the fair green strand | G |
And thou be slain beside | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
I had liefer swim yon wild water | B |
Though sair it be to bide | G |
Than I wad stand at a strange man's hand | G |
To be a strange man's bride | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
I had liefer drink yon dark water | B |
Wi' the stanes to make my bed | G |
And the faem to hide me and thou beside me | D |
Than I wad see thee dead | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
He's kissed her twice he's kissed her thrice | C |
On cheek and lip and chin | A |
He's wound her rein to his hand again | A |
And lightly they leapt in | A |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
Their hearts were high to live or die | G |
Their steeds were stark of limb | N |
But the stream was starker the spate was darker | B |
Than man might live and swim | N |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
The first ae step they strode therein | A |
It smote them foot and knee | A |
But ere they wan to the mid water | B |
The spate was as the sea | A |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
But when they wan to the mid water | B |
It smote them hand and head | G |
And nae man knows but the wave that flows | C |
Where they lie drowned and dead | G |
In in out and in | A |
Blaws the wind and whirls the whin | A |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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