The Lad From Inverness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFE GGHHIIJJJJKKJK JJLLMMNOELE| He would go they could not keep him for he came of fighting stock | A |
| Though his widowed mother pleaded he was firm as any rock | A |
| Well he loved the patient woman who had nursed him on her breast | B |
| Been quite blind to all his follies but he loved his country best | B |
| I'll come home again he told her I'll come home again some day | C |
| Laid his face to her's and kissed her said good bye and marched away | C |
| Stronger than the voice that pleaded Laddie laddie bide at home | D |
| Was the shrill voice of the bugle and the deep voice of the drum | E |
| Calling to him all the day calling to him in his dreams | F |
| Come lad Come lad Come Come Come | E |
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| His face was like a maiden's face so smooth it was and fair | G |
| The laughter in his eyes of gray the sunshine in his hair | G |
| But a man's heart true and gallant beat beneath the tartan plaid | H |
| And a strong right arm he boasted did this bonnie Highland lad | H |
| Oh the battlefield is gruesome with its dying and its dead | I |
| But 'twas to the field of battle that the drum and bugle led | I |
| Magersfontein and the bullets biting fiercely left and right | J |
| And the lad in kilt and hose there in the thickest of the fight | J |
| Fearful odds and none to help them fight they boldly undismayed | J |
| Gallant clansmen of the north land Brave old Highlander brigade | J |
| Someone blundered this we know | K |
| When you met the ambushed foe | K |
| But you fought as heroes fight and died as heroes die | J |
| This we know this we know | K |
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| Where the fighting had been fiercest as the sun sank in the west | J |
| Did they find the widow's laddie with a bullet in his breast | J |
| And his smiling face turned upward Did he dream at last who knows | L |
| Of the far off hills of Scotland Lying there in kilt and hose | L |
| With the gold hair gleaming brightly underneath the bonnet blue | M |
| And the tartan plaid laid gently o'er the heart so brave and true | M |
| Stilled forever With death's coming did there fall upon his ear | N |
| Music that he loved to list to bugle call so high and clear | O |
| Thrilling stirring sweeter shriller and the deep voice of the drum | E |
| Calling to him through the shadows calling softly through the shadows | L |
| Come lad Come lad Come Come Come | E |
Jean Blewett
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