The Dëmon Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E FGFG CHHH HIJI KLHJ DMN KMJM DMN HIJI| The Text is from Kinloch's MSS 'from the recitation of T Kinnear Stonehaven ' Child remarks of it that 'probably by the fortunate accident of being a fragment' it 'leaves us to put our own construction upon the weird seaman and though it retains the homely ship carpenter is on the whole the most satisfactory of all the versions ' | A |
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| The Story is told more elaborately in a broadside and resembles Enoch Arden in a certain degree James Harris a seaman plighted to Jane Reynolds was captured by a press gang taken overseas and after three years reported dead and buried in a foreign land After a respectable interval a ship carpenter came to Jane Reynolds and eventually wedded her and the loving couple had three pretty children One night however the ship carpenter being on a three days' journey a spirit came to the window and said that his name was James Harris and that he had come to take her away as his wife She explains that she is married and would not have her husband know of this visit for five hundred pounds James Harris however said he had seven ships upon the sea and when she heard these 'fair tales ' she succumbed went away with him and 'was never seen no more ' The ship carpenter on his return hanged himself | B |
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| Scott's ballad in the Minstrelsy spoils its own effect by converting the spirit into the devil An American version of tells the tale of a 'house carpenter' and his wife and alters 'the banks of Italy' to 'the banks of old Tennessee ' | - |
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| THE D MON LOVER | C |
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| 'O whare hae ye been my dearest dear | D |
| These seven lang years and more ' | - |
| 'O I am come to seek my former vows | E |
| That ye promis'd me before ' | - |
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| 'Awa wi' your former vows ' she says | F |
| 'Or else ye will breed strife | G |
| Awa wi' your former vows ' she says | F |
| 'For I'm become a wife | G |
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| 'I am married to a ship carpenter | C |
| A ship carpenter he's bound | H |
| I wadna he ken'd my mind this nicht | H |
| For twice five hundred pound' | H |
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| She has put her foot on gude ship board | H |
| And on ship board she's gane | I |
| And the veil that hung oure her face | J |
| Was a' wi' gowd begane | I |
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| She had na sailed a league a league | K |
| A league but barely twa | L |
| Till she did mind on the husband she left | H |
| And her wee young son alsua | J |
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| 'O haud your tongue my dearest dear | D |
| Let all your follies abee | M |
| I'll show whare the white lillies grow | N |
| On the banks of Italie ' | - |
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| She had na sailed a league a league | K |
| A league but barely three | M |
| Till grim grim grew his countenance | J |
| And gurly grew the sea | M |
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| 'O haud your tongue my dearest dear | D |
| Let all your follies abee | M |
| I'll show whare the white lillies grow | N |
| In the bottom of the sea ' | - |
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| He's tane her by the milk white hand | H |
| And he's thrown her in the main | I |
| And full five and twenty hundred ships | J |
| Perish'd all on the coast of Spain | I |
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