The Douglas Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC ECFC GHIH FJKJ LMKM MNOP LPQP ODRD LILI GPIP ISPT UPIP BQVQ ISPT BWBW BXYX IIPI ZPA2P IPJP B2OPC2| Child vol ii Early Edition | A |
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| Rise up rise up now Lord Douglas she says | B |
| And put on your armour so bright | C |
| Let it never be said that a daughter of thine | D |
| Was married to a lord under night | C |
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| Rise up rise up my seven bold sons | E |
| And put on your armour so bright | C |
| And take better care of your youngest sister | F |
| For your eldest's awa the last night | C |
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| He's mounted her on a milk white steed | G |
| And himself on a dapple grey | H |
| With a bugelet horn hung down by his side | I |
| And lightly they rode away | H |
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| Lord William lookit o'er his left shoulder | F |
| To see what he could see | J |
| And there be spy'd her seven brethren bold | K |
| Come riding o'er the lee | J |
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| Light down light down Lady Marg'ret he said | L |
| And hold my steed in your hand | M |
| Until that against your seven brothers bold | K |
| And your father I make a stand | M |
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| She held his steed in her milk white hand | M |
| And never shed one tear | N |
| Until that she saw her seven brethren fa' | O |
| And her father hard fighting who loved her so dear | P |
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| O hold your hand Lord William she said | L |
| For your strokes they are wondrous sair | P |
| True lovers I can get many a ane | Q |
| But a father I can never get mair | P |
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| O she's ta'en out her handkerchief | O |
| It was o' the holland sae fine | D |
| And aye she dighted her father's bloody wounds | R |
| That were redder than the wine | D |
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| O chuse O chuse Lady Marg'ret he said | L |
| O whether will ye gang or bide | I |
| I'll gang I'll gang Lord William she said | L |
| For ye have left me no other guide | I |
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| He's lifted her on a milk white steed | G |
| And himself on a dapple grey | P |
| With a bugelet horn hung down by his side | I |
| And slowly they baith rade away | P |
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| O they rade on and on they rade | I |
| And a' by the light of the moon | S |
| Until they came to yon wan water | P |
| And there they lighted down | T |
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| They lighted down to tak a drink | U |
| Of the spring that ran sae clear | P |
| And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood | I |
| And sair she 'gan to fear | P |
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| Hold up hold up Lord William she says | B |
| For I fear that you are slain | Q |
| 'Tis naething but the shadow of my scarlet cloak | V |
| That shines in the water sae plain | Q |
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| O they rade on and on they rade | I |
| And a' by the light of the moon | S |
| Until they cam to his mother's ha' door | P |
| And there they lighted down | T |
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| Get up get up lady mother he says | B |
| Get up and let me in | W |
| Get up get up lady mother he says | B |
| For this night my fair ladye I've win | W |
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| O mak my bed lady mother he says | B |
| O mak it braid and deep | X |
| And lay Lady Marg'ret close at my back | Y |
| And the sounder I will sleep | X |
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| Lord William was dead lang ere midnight | I |
| Lady Marg'ret lang ere day | I |
| And all true lovers that go thegither | P |
| May they have mair luck than they | I |
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| Lord William was buried in St Marie's kirk | Z |
| Lady Margaret in Marie's quire | P |
| Out o' the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose | A2 |
| And out o' the knight's a brier | P |
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| And they twa met and they twa plat | I |
| And fain they wad be near | P |
| And a' the warld might ken right weel | J |
| They were twa lovers dear | P |
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| But by and rade the Black Douglas | B2 |
| And wow but he was rough | O |
| For he pull'd up the bonny brier | P |
| An flang't in St Marie's Loch | C2 |
Andrew Lang
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