Dunolly's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NOJO PQRQ STUT VWXW| Oh dear to old Dunolly's heart | A |
| His darling daughter seemed | B |
| Yet when she fled how pitiless | C |
| His bitter curse was deemed | B |
| - | |
| To death he doomed her lover true | D |
| And swore his lowly blood | E |
| Should stain the land whose soil would blush | F |
| At wanton womanhood | G |
| - | |
| But leaves were thick and woods were green | H |
| Where summer saw their love | I |
| And none could tell Dunolly where | J |
| Was nesting his wild dove | I |
| - | |
| Two years had sped and all unchanged | K |
| Dunolly's mood remained | L |
| When tired with hunting late at eve | M |
| A forest hut he gained | L |
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| A cheerful scene for hung on trees | N |
| On either side the door | O |
| A stag and roe and salmon there | J |
| Lay strewn the hut before | O |
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| There pausing silently he heard | P |
| Light laughter O well known | Q |
| And looking through the wattled wall | R |
| Stood motionless as stone | Q |
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| He saw a happy woman lie | S |
| Her true man's form beside | T |
| And laugh as on the bed they tossed | U |
| A smiling child in pride | T |
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| No word Dunolly spoke but went | V |
| An altered man and said | W |
| Go bring them home for rich are they | X |
| Love shows them nobly wed | W |
John Campbell
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