Culloden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFFF FGFF HFHF IAIA| Dark dark was the day when we looked on Culloden | A |
| And chill was the mist drop that clung to the tree | B |
| The oats of the harvest hung heavy and sodden | A |
| No light on the land and no wind on the sea | B |
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| There was wind there was rain there was fire on their faces | C |
| When the clans broke the bayonets and died on the guns | D |
| And 'tis Honour that watches the desolate places | C |
| Where they sleep through the change of the snows and the suns | D |
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| Unfed and unmarshalled outworn and outnumbered | E |
| All hopeless and fearless as fiercely they fought | F |
| As when Falkirk with heaps of the fallen was cumbered | F |
| As when Gledsmuir was red with the havoc they wrought | F |
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| Ah woe worth you Sleat and the faith that you vowed | F |
| Ah woe worth you Lovat Traquair and Mackay | G |
| And woe on the false fairy flag of Macleod | F |
| And the fat squires who drank but who dared not to die | F |
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| Where the graves of Clan Chattan are clustered together | H |
| Where Macgillavray died by the Well of the Dead | F |
| We stooped to the moorland and plucked the pale heather | H |
| That blooms where the hope of the Stuart was sped | F |
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| And a whisper awoke on the wilderness sighing | I |
| Like the voice of the heroes who battled in vain | A |
| Not for Tearlach alone the red claymore was plying | I |
| But to bring back the old life that comes not again | A |
Andrew Lang
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