The Broomfield Hill Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB C D B EFGH IJBF BKF AABF BLMN FNMN OPQ BARA STF UGF VTF UWU SBX SFX| The Text is taken from Scott's Minstrelsy It would be of great interest if we could be sure that the reference to 'Hive Hill' in was from genuine Scots tradition In Wager's comedy The Longer thou Lived the more Fool thou art about Moros sings a burden | A |
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| 'Brome brome on hill | B |
| The gentle brome on hill hill | B |
| Brome brome on Hive hill | B |
| The gentle brome on Hive hill | B |
| The brome stands on Hive hill a ' | - |
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| Before this date 'Brume brume on hil' is mentioned in The Complaynt of Scotlande and a similar song was among Captain Cox's 'ballets and songs all auncient ' | - |
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| The Story of a youth challenging a maid and losing his wager by being laid asleep with witchcraft is popular and widespread In the Gesta Romanorum is a story of which this theme is one main incident the other being the well known forfeit of a pound of flesh as in the Merchant of Venice Ser Giovanni Pecorone IV tells a similar tale and other variations are found in narrative or ballad form in Iceland Sweden Denmark Italy and Germany | C |
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| Grimm notes the German superstition that the rosenschwamm gall on the wild rose if laid beneath a man's pillow causes him to sleep until it be taken away | D |
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| THE BROOMFIELD HILL | B |
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| There was a knight and a lady bright | E |
| Had a true tryste at the broom | F |
| The ane gaed early in the morning | G |
| The other in the afternoon | H |
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| And ay she sat in her mother's bower door | I |
| And ay she made her mane | J |
| 'O whether should I gang to the Broomfield Hill | B |
| Or should I stay at hame | F |
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| 'For if I gang to the Broomfield Hill | B |
| My maidenhead is gone | K |
| And if I chance to stay at hame | F |
| My love will ca' me mansworn ' | - |
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| Up then spake a witch woman | A |
| Ay from the room aboon | A |
| 'O ye may gang to the Broomfield Hill | B |
| And yet come maiden hame | F |
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| 'For when ye gang to the Broomfield Hill | B |
| Ye'll find your love asleep | L |
| With a silver belt about his head | M |
| And a broom cow at his feet | N |
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| 'Take ye the blossom of the broom | F |
| The blossom it smells sweet | N |
| And strew it at your true love's head | M |
| And likewise at his feet | N |
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| 'Take ye the rings off your fingers | O |
| Put them on his right hand | P |
| To let him know when he doth awake | Q |
| His love was at his command ' | - |
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| She pu'd the broom flower on Hive Hill | B |
| And strew'd on's white hals bane | A |
| And that was to be wittering true | R |
| That maiden she had gane | A |
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| 'O where were ye my milk white steed | S |
| That I hae coft sae dear | T |
| That wadna watch and waken me | F |
| When there was maiden here ' | - |
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| 'I stamped wi' my foot master | U |
| And gard my bridle ring | G |
| But na kin thing wald waken ye | F |
| Till she was past and gane ' | - |
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| 'And wae betide ye my gay goss hawk | V |
| That I did love sae dear | T |
| That wadna watch and waken me | F |
| When there was maiden here ' | - |
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| 'I clapped wi' my wings master | U |
| And aye my bells I rang | W |
| And aye cry'd Waken waken master | U |
| Before the lady gang ' | - |
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| 'But haste and haste my gude white steed | S |
| To come the maiden till | B |
| Or a' the birds of gude green wood | X |
| Of your flesh shall have their fill ' | - |
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| 'Ye need na burst your gude white steed | S |
| Wi' racing o'er the howm | F |
| Nae bird flies faster through the wood | X |
| Than she fled through the broom ' | - |
Frank Sidgwick
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