The Death Of Sir James, Lord Of Douglas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC D EEFFGGHHIIBBJJGGKKLL EEFFMMNNOOGGPPJJQRBB SSOOFFOOJJSSJJEE| i Men may weill wyt thouch nane thaim tell | A |
| How angry for sorow and how fell | A |
| Is to tyne sic a Lord as he | B |
| To thaim that war off hys mengye | C |
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| Barbour's Bruce B XX i i | D |
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| Where rich Seville's proud turrets rise | E |
| A foreign ship at anchor lies | E |
| The pennons floating in the air | F |
| Proclaim that one of rank is there | F |
| The Douglas with a gallant band | G |
| Of warriors seeks the Holy Land | G |
| But wherefore now the trumpet's bray | H |
| The clang of arms and war s array | H |
| The atabal and martial drum | I |
| The Moor the infidel is come | I |
| And there is Sultan Osmyn see | B |
| With all his Paynim chivalry | B |
| And they have sworn to glut their steel | J |
| With the best blood of fair Castile | J |
| And do we here inactive stand | G |
| The Douglas cries Land comrades land | G |
| Then for the Christian camp he makes | K |
| When thus Alphonso silence breaks | K |
| What news from Scotland do you bring | L |
| And where is now your patriot king | L |
| Alas within this casket lies | E |
| The heart so valiant good and wise | E |
| This to the Holy Land we bear | F |
| For we have sworn to lay it there | F |
| But let us forward to the fight | M |
| And God protect the Christian right | M |
| To whom Alphonso Scottish lord | N |
| That now for Spain cost draw that sword | N |
| The terror of thy English foes | O |
| When for her freedom Scotland rose | O |
| With knights like thee and thy brave band | G |
| We ll drive the Moslem from the land | G |
| The Douglas thus his comrades cheers | P |
| Be brave and as for him that fears | P |
| Let the base coward turn and fly | J |
| For we will gain the day or die | J |
| Now couch the trusty Scottish spear | Q |
| And think King Robert s heart is here | R |
| And boldly charge already see | B |
| The dogs of Moslems turn and flee | B |
| At the first onset with the slain | S |
| Those valiant warriors strew the plain | S |
| But hark the Allah Hu the foes | O |
| Rally and hot the combat grows | O |
| For here the Spaniards yield and there | F |
| The Moors have slain the brave St Clair | F |
| Then midst the thickest of his foes | O |
| The precious casket Douglas throws | O |
| Pass on before us hear him cry | J |
| For I will follow thee or die | J |
| He rushes on but all in vain | S |
| For thicker comes the arrowy rain | S |
| And now by multitudes opprest | J |
| With many a wound upon his breast | J |
| Where midst the slain the casket lies | E |
| A noble death the Douglas dies | E |
James Clerk Maxwell
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