Lochinvar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDCBEEDD FFGHDD IIJJDD KKLLDD MMNNDD DDOODD PPQQDDO young Lochinvar is come out of the west | A |
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best | A |
And save his good broadsword he weapons had none | B |
He rode all unarm'd and he rode all alone | C |
So faithful in love and so dauntless in war | D |
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar | D |
He staid not for brake and he stopp'd not for stone | C |
He swam the Eske river where ford there was none | B |
But ere he alighted at Netherby gate | E |
The bride had consented the gallant came late | E |
For a laggard in love and a dastard in war | D |
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar | D |
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So boldly he enter'd the Netherby Hall | F |
Among bride's men and kinsmen and brothers and all | F |
Then spoke the bride's father his hand on his sword | G |
For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word | H |
O come ye in peace here or come ye in war | D |
Or to dance at our bridal young Lord Lochinvar | D |
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I long woo'd your daughter my suit you denied | I |
Love swells like the Solway but ebbs like its tide | I |
And now I am come with this lost love of mine | J |
To lead but one measure drink one cup of wine | J |
There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far | D |
That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar | D |
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The bride kiss'd the goblet the knight took it up | K |
He quaff'd off the wine and he threw down the cup | K |
She look'd down to blush and she look'd up to sigh | L |
With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye | L |
He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar | D |
Now tread we a measure said young Lochinvar | D |
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So stately his form and so lovely her face | M |
That never a hall such a gailiard did grace | M |
While her mother did fret and her father did fume | N |
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume | N |
And the bride maidens whisper'd 'twere better by far | D |
To have match'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar | D |
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One touch to her hand and one word in her ear | D |
When they reach'd the hall door and the charger stood near | D |
So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung | O |
So light to the saddle before her he sprung | O |
She is won we are gone over bank bush and scaur | D |
They'll have fleet steeds that follow quoth young Lochinvar | D |
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There was mounting 'mong Graemes of the Netherby clan | P |
Forsters Fenwicks and Musgraves they rode and they ran | P |
There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee | Q |
But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see | Q |
So daring in love and so dauntless in war | D |
Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar | D |
Sir Walter Scott
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