The Lament Of The Border Widow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEBD FFDD GDHI EEDJ KFEE| My love he built me a bonny bower | A |
| And clad it a' wi' a lilye flower | A |
| A brawer bower ye ne'er did see | B |
| Than my true love he built for me | B |
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| There came a man by middle day | C |
| He spied his sport and went away | C |
| And brought the king that very night | D |
| Who brake my bower and slew my knight | D |
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| He slew my knight to me so dear | E |
| He slew my knight and poined his gear | E |
| My servants all for life did flee | B |
| And left me in extremitie | D |
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| I sewed his sheet making my mane | F |
| I watched the corpse myself alane | F |
| I watched his body night and day | D |
| No living creature came that way | D |
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| I took his body on my back | G |
| And whiles I gaed and whiles I sat | D |
| I digged a grave and laid him in | H |
| And happed him with the sod so green | I |
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| But think na ye my heart was sair | E |
| When I laid the moul' on his yellow hair | E |
| Think na ye my heart was wae | D |
| When I turned about away to gae | J |
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| Nae living man I'll love again | K |
| Since that my lovely knight is slain | F |
| W ae lock of his yellow hair | E |
| I'll chain my heart for evermair | E |
George Wharton Edwards
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