The Kelso Road Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PHQH ARSR| Morning and evening are mine | A |
| And the bright noon day | B |
| But night to no man doth belong | C |
| When the sad ghosts play | B |
| - | |
| From Kelso town I took the road | D |
| By the full flood Tweed | E |
| The black clouds swept across the moon | F |
| With devouring greed | E |
| - | |
| Seek ye no peace who tread the night | G |
| I felt above my head | H |
| Blowing the cloud's edge faces wry | I |
| In pale fury spread | H |
| - | |
| Twelve surly elves were digging graves | J |
| Beside black Eden brook | K |
| Eleven dug and stared at me | L |
| But one read in a book | K |
| - | |
| In Birgham trees and hedges rocked | M |
| The moon was drowned in black | N |
| At Hirsel woods I shrieked to find | O |
| A fiend astride my back | N |
| - | |
| His legs he closed about my breast | P |
| His hands upon my head | H |
| Till Coldstream lights beamed in the trees | Q |
| And he wailed and fled | H |
| - | |
| Morning and evening are mine | A |
| And the bright noon heat | R |
| But at night the sad thin ghosts | S |
| For their revels meet | R |
Frank James Prewett
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