Keeping Tryst Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FBFB GDHD IJIJ EBEB KDKD CLCL MNON PIPI EDED QDQD DRDR BEBE SLTL MDMD DLLL ULUL LELE| Who is the maid with silken hair | A |
| By clear Maine Water roaming | B |
| For the fairy Queen is not so fair | A |
| As she in the lonely gloaming | B |
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| It is sweet Mysie of Bellee | C |
| John Millar's lovely daughter | D |
| She is waiting where the old elm tree | E |
| Droops over the sweet Maine Water | D |
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| The trysting time has come and past | F |
| The day is fast declining | B |
| Oh my true love are you coming fast | F |
| For the star of love is shining | B |
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| The moon is bright the ford is safe | G |
| The market folks crossed over | D |
| Oh come to me it is wearing late | H |
| And I wait for thee my lover | D |
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| I fear me there will be a storm | I |
| The clouds with murky fingers | J |
| Are muffling the stars o'er far Galgorm | I |
| Where my own true lover lingers | J |
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| She turned her from the trysting tree | E |
| So sadly home returning | B |
| Saying He has broken tryst with me | E |
| And his ship sails in the morning | B |
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| She took three steps from that sad place | K |
| Where doubt of him had found her | D |
| And he stood before her face to face | K |
| And he drew his arm around her | D |
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| I thought without one last farewell | C |
| We had for ever parted | L |
| And I could not of the anguish tell | C |
| That had left me broken hearted | L |
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| My love I'm going far away | M |
| Whatever may betide us | N |
| Our loving hearts are one for aye | O |
| Though the roaring seas divide us | N |
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| He broke a ring between them two | P |
| He made a vow to bind him | I |
| To death and beyond it to be true | P |
| To her he had left behind him | I |
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| Years passed the maiden secretly | E |
| Watched on with anxious wonder | D |
| For some love message but treachery | E |
| Kept the two fond hearts asunder | D |
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| She lived in hope that he would write | Q |
| And some love token send her | D |
| Her step grew feeble her face grew white | Q |
| And her eyes got unearthly splendour | D |
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| And lovers they besieged her sore | D |
| For love that she had given | R |
| To one who would come to her no more | D |
| So she faded into heaven | R |
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| They made her grave where robins sing | B |
| Trees whisper requiems daily | E |
| They laid her down with her broken ring | B |
| In her grave at Kirk ma Rielly | E |
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| Word went out of the maiden's death | S |
| Who for true love departed | L |
| It found him who mourned her broken faith | T |
| And mourned her as false falsehearted | L |
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| He turned as cold as cold cold clay | M |
| And fell struck down with sorrow | D |
| I know how my dear love died to day | M |
| I will die for her to morrow | D |
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| My love is dead so sweet and fair | D |
| Blighted and broken hearted | L |
| I'll keep my tryst and together dead | L |
| We'll rest who were falsely parted | L |
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| Gold that my darling could not save | U |
| That made my love derided | L |
| Shall carry me home and dig my grave | U |
| We'll not be in death divided | L |
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| They made his grave on Erin's breast | L |
| Where the birds sing requiems daily | E |
| And laid him beside his love to rest | L |
| In the grave yard of Kirk ma Bielly | E |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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