Hunting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDAA AADDEFAA AAGGHHAA AAIIDDAAWaken lords and ladies gay | A |
On the mountain dawns the day | A |
All the jolly chase is here | B |
With hawk and horse and hunting spear | C |
Hounds are in their couples yelling | D |
Hawks are whistling horns are knelling | D |
Merrily merrily mingle they | A |
Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
The mist has left the mountain gray | A |
Springlets in the dawn are steaming | D |
Diamonds on the brake are gleaming | D |
And foresters have busy been | E |
To track the buck in thicket green | F |
Now we come to chant our lay | A |
Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
To the greenwood haste away | A |
We can show you where he lies | G |
Fleet of foot and tall of size | G |
We can show the marks he made | H |
When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd | H |
You shall see him brought to bay | A |
Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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Louder louder chant the lay | A |
Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
Tell them youth and mirth and glee | I |
Run a course as well as we | I |
Time stern huntsman who can balk | D |
Staunch as hound and fleet as hawk | D |
Think of this and rise with day | A |
Gentle lords and ladies gay | A |
Sir Walter Scott
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