Mackrimmon's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCB CCBBDAEEBB CCBBFFF| MacLeod's wizard flag from the grey castle sallies | A |
| The rowers are seated unmoor'd are the galleys | A |
| Gleam war axe and broadsword clang target and quiver | B |
| As Mackrimmon sings 'Farewell to Dunvegan for ever | B |
| Farewell to each cliff on which breakers are foaming | C |
| Farewell each dark glen in which red deer are roaming | C |
| MacLeod may return but Mackrimmon shall never | B |
| - | |
| 'Farewell the bright clouds that on Quillan are sleeping | C |
| Farewell the bright eyes in the Dun that are weeping | C |
| To each minstrel delusion farewell and for ever | B |
| Mackrimmon departs to return to you never | B |
| The | D |
| Banshee's | A |
| wild voice sings the death dirge before me | E |
| The pall of the dead for a mantle hangs o'er me | E |
| But my heart shall not flag and my nerves shall not shiver | B |
| Though devoted I go to return again never | B |
| - | |
| 'Too oft shall the notes of Mackrimmon's bewailing | C |
| Be heard when the Gael on their exile are sailing | C |
| Dear land to the shores whence unwilling we sever | B |
| Return return return shall we never | B |
| Cha till cha till cha till sin tuille | F |
| Cha till cha till cha till sin tuille | F |
| Cha till cha till cha till sin tuille | F |
| Gea thillis MacLeod cha till Mackrimmon ' | - |
Sir Walter Scott
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