The Queen Of Elfan's Nourice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C C DEFE DFFF E FGC FGCH EF FGF CGFG CFE FGFG CE FIJ| The Text As printed in Sharpe's Ballad Book from the Skene MS No It is fragmentary regrettably so especially as stanzas belong to Thomas Rymer | A |
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| The Story is the well known one of the abduction of a young mother to be the Queen of Elfland's nurse Fairies elves water sprites and nisses or brownies have constantly required mortal assistance in the nursing of fairy children Gervase of Tilbury himself saw a woman stolen away for this purpose as she was washing clothes in the Rhone | B |
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| The genuineness of this ballad deficient as it is is best proved by its lyrical nature which as Child says 'forces you to chant and will not be read ' | - |
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| 'Elfan ' of course is Elfland 'nourice ' a nurse | C |
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| THE QUEEN OF ELFAN'S NOURICE | C |
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| 'I heard a cow low a bonnie cow low | D |
| An' a cow low down in yon glen | E |
| Lang lang will my young son greet | F |
| Or his mother bid him come ben | E |
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| 'I heard a cow low a bonnie cow low | D |
| An' a cow low down in yon fauld | F |
| Lang lang will my young son greet | F |
| Or his mither take him frae cauld | F |
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| Waken Queen of Elfan | E |
| An' hear your nourice moan ' | - |
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| 'O moan ye for your meat | F |
| Or moan ye for your fee | G |
| Or moan ye for the ither bounties | C |
| That ladies are wont to gie ' | - |
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| 'I moan na for my meat | F |
| Nor moan I for my fee | G |
| Nor moan I for the ither bounties | C |
| That ladies are wont to gie | H |
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| But I moan for my young son | E |
| I left in four nights auld | F |
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| 'I moan na for my meat | F |
| Nor yet for my fee | G |
| But I mourn for Christen land | F |
| It's there I fain would be ' | - |
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| 'O nurse my bairn nourice ' she says | C |
| 'Till he stan' at your knee | G |
| An' ye's win hame to Christen land | F |
| Whar fain it's ye wad be | G |
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| 'O keep my bairn nourice | C |
| Till he gang by the hauld | F |
| An' ye's win hame to your young son | E |
| Ye left in four nights auld ' | - |
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| 'O nourice lay your head | F |
| Upo' my knee | G |
| See ye na that narrow road | F |
| Up by yon tree | G |
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| That's the road the righteous goes | C |
| And that's the road to heaven | E |
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| 'An' see na ye that braid road | F |
| Down by yon sunny fell | I |
| Yon's the road the wicked gae | J |
| An' that's the road to hell ' | - |
Frank Sidgwick
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