The Burial Of Sir John Mackenzie Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEEFFC GCHCIIJJC KCLCMMNNC OCPCQQCCC CCRCSSTTC| A | |
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| They played him home to the House of Stones | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All the way all the way | C |
| To his grave in the sound of the winter sea | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The sky was dour the sky was gray | C |
| They played him home with the chieftain's dirge | E |
| Till the wail was wed to the rolling surge | E |
| They played him home with a sorrowful will | F |
| To his grave at the foot of the Holy Hill | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the pipes went mourning all the way | C |
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| Strong hands that had struck for right | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All the day all the day | C |
| Folded now in the dark of earth | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Veiled dawn of the upper way | C |
| Strong hands that struck with his | I |
| From days that were to the day that is | I |
| Carry him now from the house of woe | J |
| To ride the way the Chief must go | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And his peers went mourning all the way | C |
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| Son and brother at his right hand | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All the way all the way | C |
| And O for them and O for her | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Who stayed within the dowie day | C |
| Son and brother and near of kin | M |
| Go out with the chief who never comes in | M |
| And of all who loved him far and near | N |
| 'Twas the nearest most who held him dear | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And his kin went mourning all the way | C |
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| The clan went on with the pipes before | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All the way all the way | C |
| A wider clan than ever he knew | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Followed him home that dowie day | C |
| And who were they of the wider clan | Q |
| The landless man and the no man's man | Q |
| The man that lacked and the man unlearned | C |
| The man that lived but as he earned | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the clan went mourning all the way | C |
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| The heart of New Zealand went beside | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp All the way all the way | C |
| To the resting place of her Highland Chief | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Much she thought she could not say | C |
| He found her a land of many domains | S |
| Maiden forest and fallow plains | S |
| He left her a land of many homes | T |
| The pearl of the world where the sea wind roams | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And New Zealand went mourning all the way | C |
Jessie Mackay
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