For Scotland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD EFEF GHGI JKJK FLFL MNMN OPOQ CDDD| Beyond the Cheviots and the Tweed | A |
| Beyond the Firth of Forth | B |
| My memory returns at speed | A |
| To Scotland and the North | B |
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| For still I keep and ever shall | C |
| A warm place in my heart for Scotland | D |
| Scotland Scotland | D |
| A warm place in my heart for Scotland | D |
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| Oh cruel off St Andrew's Bay | E |
| The winds are wont to blow | F |
| They either rest or gently play | E |
| When there in dreams I go | F |
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| And there I wander young again | G |
| With limbs that do not tire | H |
| Along the coast to Kittock's Den | G |
| With whinbloom all afire | I |
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| I climb the Spindle Rock and lie | J |
| And take my doubtful ease | K |
| Between the ocean and the sky | J |
| Derided by the breeze | K |
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| Where coloured mushrooms thickly grow | F |
| Like flowers of brittle stalk | L |
| To haunted Magus Muir I go | F |
| By Lady Catherine's Walk | L |
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| In dreams the year I linger through | M |
| In that familiar town | N |
| Where all the youth I ever knew | M |
| Burned up and flickered down | N |
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| There's not a rock that fronts the sea | O |
| There's not an inland grove | P |
| But has a tale to tell to me | O |
| Of friendship or of love | Q |
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| And so I keep and ever shall | C |
| The best place in my heart for Scotland | D |
| Scotland Scotland | D |
| The best place in my heart for Scotland | D |
Robert Fuller Murray
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