Heriot's Ford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA AABA AAAA AAAA AAAA AACA AAAA AAAA| quot What's that that hirples at my side quot | A |
| The foe that you must fight my lord | A |
| quot That rides as fast as I can ride quot | A |
| The shadow of your might my lord | A |
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| quot Then wheel my horse against the foe quot | A |
| He's down and overpast my lord | A |
| You war against the sunset glow | B |
| The judgment follows fast my lord | A |
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| quot Oh who will stay the sun's descent quot | A |
| King Joshua he is dead my lord | A |
| quot I need an hour to repent quot | A |
| 'Tis what our sister said my lord | A |
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| quot Oh do not slay me in my sins quot | A |
| You're safe awhile with us my lord | A |
| quot Nay kill me ere my fear begins quot | A |
| We would not serve you thus my lord | A |
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| quot Where is the doom that I must face quot | A |
| Three little leagues away my lord | A |
| quot Then mend the horses' laggard pace quot | A |
| We need them for next day my lord | A |
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| quot Next day next day Unloose my cords quot | A |
| Our sister needed none my lord | A |
| You had no mind to face our swords | C |
| And where can cowards run my lord | A |
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| quot You would not kill the soul alive quot | A |
| 'Twas thus our sister cried my lord | A |
| quot I dare not die with none to shrive quot | A |
| But so our sister died my lord | A |
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| quot Then wipe the sweat from brow and cheek quot | A |
| It runnels forth afresh my lord | A |
| quot Uphold me for the flesh is weak quot | A |
| You've finished with the Flesh my lord | A |
Rudyard Kipling
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