Ancient Gaelic Melody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEE AFFGGHHII AJJKKLLMM KNNKKOOMM| I | A |
| Birds of omen dark and foul | B |
| Night crow raven bat and owl | B |
| Leave the sick man to his dream | C |
| All night long he heard you scream | C |
| Haste to cave and ruin'd tower | D |
| Ivy tod or dingled bower | D |
| There to wink and mop for hark | E |
| In the mid air sings the lark | E |
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| II | A |
| Hie to moorish gills and rocks | F |
| Prowling wolf and wily fox | F |
| Hie ye fast nor turn your view | G |
| Though the lamb bleats to the ewe | G |
| Couch your trains and speed your flight | H |
| Safety parts with parting night | H |
| And on distant echo borne | I |
| Comes the hunter's early horn | I |
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| III | A |
| The moon's wan crescent scarcely gleams | J |
| Ghost like she fades in morning beams | J |
| Hie hence each peevish imp and fay | K |
| That scarce the pilgrim on his way | K |
| Quench kelpy quench in bog and fen | L |
| Thy torch that cheats benighted men | L |
| Thy dance is o'er thy reign is done | M |
| For Benyieglo hath seen the sun | M |
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| IV | K |
| Wild thoughts that sinful dark and deep | N |
| O'erpower the passive mind in sleep | N |
| Pass from the slumberer's soul away | K |
| Like night mists from the brow of day | K |
| Foul hag whose blasted visage grim | O |
| Smothers the pulse unnerves the limb | O |
| Spur thy dark palfrey and begone | M |
| Thou darest not face the godlike sun | M |
Sir Walter Scott
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