Scotland's Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADCBEFEGGHIFIFIH GFFGJJKL| Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill | A |
| The sun looks from the hill | A |
| Helmed in his winter casket | B |
| And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky | C |
| The water at the mill | A |
| Sounds more hoarse and dull | D |
| The miller's daughter walking by | C |
| With frozen fingers soldered to her basket | B |
| Seems to be knocking | E |
| Upon a hundred leagues of floor | F |
| With her light heels and mocking | E |
| Percy and Douglas dead | G |
| And Bruce on his burial bed | G |
| Where he lies white as may | H |
| With wars and leprosy | I |
| And all the kings before | F |
| This land was kingless | I |
| And all the singers before | F |
| This land was songless | I |
| This land that with its dead and living waits the Judgement Day | H |
| But they the powerless dead | G |
| Listening can hear no more | F |
| Than a hard tapping on the floor | F |
| A little overhead | G |
| Of common heels that do not know | J |
| Whence they come or where they go | J |
| And are content | K |
| With their poor frozen life and shallow banishment | L |
Edwin Muir
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