Marmion: Introduction To Canto V. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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When dark December glooms the day	A
And takes our autumn joys away	A
When short and scant the sunbeam throws	B
Upon the weary waste of snows	B
A cold and profitless regard	C
Like patron on a needy bard	C
When silvan occupation's done	D
And o'er the chimney rests the gun	D
And hang in idle trophy near	E
The game pouch fishing rod and spear	E
When wiry terrier rough and grim	F
And greyhound with his length of limb	F
And pointer now employed no more	G
Cumber our parlour's narrow floor	G
When in his stall the impatient steed	H
Is long condemned to rest and feed	H
When from our snow encircled home	I
Scarce cares the hardiest step to roam	I
Since path is none save that to bring	J
The needful water from the spring	J
When wrinkled news page thrice conned o'er	K
Beguiles the dreary hour no more	G
And darkling politican crossed	L
Inveighs against the lingering post	M
And answering housewife sore complains	N
Of carriers' snow impeded wains	N
When such the country cheer I come	O
Well pleased to seek our city home	I
For converse and for books to change	P
The Forest's melancholy range	P
And welcome with renewed delight	Q
The busy day and social night	Q
Not here need my desponding rhyme	R
Lament the ravages of time	R
As erst by Newark's riven towers	N
And Ettrick stripped of forest bowers	N
True Caledonia's Queen is changed	S
Since on her dusky summit ranged	S
Within its steepy limits pent	T
By bulwark line and battlement	U
And flanking towers and laky flood	V
Guarded and garrisoned she stood	W
Denying entrance or resort	X
Save at each tall embattled port	X
Above whose arch suspended hung	Y
Portcullis spiked with iron prong	Z
That long is gone but not so long	Z
Since early closed and opening late	A2
Jealous revolved the studded gate	A2
Whose task from eve to morning tide	B2
A wicket churlishly supplied	B2
Stern then and steel girt was thy brow	C2
Dunedin Oh how altered now	C2
When safe amid thy mountain court	X
Thou sitt'st like empress at her sport	X
And liberal unconfined and free	D2
Flinging thy white arms to the sea	D2
For thy dark cloud with umbered lower	K
That hung o'er cliff and lake and tower	K
Thou gleam'st against the western ray	A
Ten thousand lines of brighter day	A
Not she the championess of old	E2
In Spenser's magic tale enrolled	E2
She for the charmed spear renowned	F2
Which forced each knight to kiss the ground	F2
Not she more changed when placed at rest	G2
What time she was Malbecco's guest	G2
She gave to flow her maiden vest	G2
When from the corslet's grasp relieved	H2
Free to the sight her bosom heaved	H2
Sweet was her blue eye's modest smile	I2
Erst hidden by the aventayle	I2
And down her shoulders graceful rolled	E2
Her locks profuse of paly gold	E2
They who whilom in midnight fight	Q
Had marvelled at her matchless might	Q
No less her maiden charms approved	J2
But looking liked and liking loved	K2
The sight could jealous pangs beguile	I2
And charm Malbecco's cares a while	I2
And he the wandering squire of dames	N
Forgot his Columbella's claims	N
And passion erst unknown could gain	L2
The breast of blunt Sir Satyrane	L2
Nor durst light Paridel advance	N
Bold as he was a looser glance	N
She charmed at once and tamed the heart	M2
Incomparable Britomarte	M2
So thou fair city disarrayed	M2
Of battled wall and rampart's aid	M2
As stately seem'st but lovelier far	N2
Than in that panoply of war	G
Nor deem that from thy fenceless throne	L2
Strength and security are flown	L2
Still as of yore Queen of the North	O2
Still canst thou send thy children forth	O2
Ne'er readier at alarm bell's call	I2
Thy burghers rose to man thy wall	I2
Than now in danger shall be thine	L2
Thy dauntless voluntary line	L2
For fosse and turret proud to stand	M2
Their breasts the bulwarks of the land	M2
Thy thousands trained to martial toil	I2
Full red would stain their native soil	I2
Ere from thy mural crown there fell	I2
The slightest knosp or pinnacle	I2
And if it come as come it may	A
Dunedin that eventful day	A
Renowned for hospitable deed	M2
That virtue much with Heaven may plead	M2
In patriarchal times whose care	P2
Descending angels deigned to share	P2
That claim may wrestle blessings down	L2
On those who fight for the good town	L2
Destined in every age to be	D2
Refuge of injured royalty	D2
Since first when conquering York arose	N
To Henry meek she gave repose	N
Till late with wonder grief and awe	Q2
Great Bourbon's relics sad she saw	N
Truce to these thoughts for as they rise	N
How gladly I avert mine eyes	N
Bodings or true or false to change	P
For Fiction's fair romantic range	P
Or for tradition's dubious light	M2
That hovers 'twixt the day and night	M2
Dazzling alternately and dim	F
Her wavering lamp I'd rather trim	F
Knights squires and lovely dames to see	D2
Creation of my fantasy	D2
Than gaze abroad on reeky fen	L2
And make of mists invading men	L2
Who love not more the night of June	L2
Than dull December's gloomy noon	L2
The moonlight than the fog of frost	M2
And can we say which cheats the most	M2
But who shall teach my harp to gain	L2
A sound of the romantic strain	L2
Whose Anglo Norman tones whilere	P2
Could win the royal Henry's ear	P2
Famed Beauclerc called for that he loved	M2
The minstrel and his lay approved	M2
Who shall these lingering notes redeem	R2
Decaying on Oblivion's stream	R2
Such notes as from the Breton tongue	Y
Marie translated Blondel sung	Y
O born Time's ravage to repair	P2
And make the dying muse thy care	P2
Who when his scythe her hoary foe	S2
Was poising for the final blow	S2
The weapon from his hand could wring	J
And break his glass and shear his wing	J
And bid reviving in his strain	L2
The gentle poet live again	L2
Thou who canst give to lightest lay	A
An unpedantic moral gay	A
Nor less the dullest theme bid flit	M2
On wings of unexpected wit	M2
In letters as in life approved	M2
Example honoured and beloved	M2
Dear Ellis to the bard impart	M2
A lesson of thy magic art	M2
To win at once the head and heart	M2
At once to charm instruct and mend	M2
My guide my pattern and my friend	M2
Such minstrel lesson to bestow	S2
Be long thy pleasing task but oh	S2
No more by thy example teach	T2
What few can practise all can preach	T2
With even patience to endure	P2
Lingering disease and painful cure	P2
And boast affliction's pangs subdued	M2
By mild and manly fortitude	M2
Enough the lesson has been given	L2
Forbid the repetition Heaven	L2
Come listen then for thou hast known	L2
And loved the minstrel's varying tone	L2
Who like his Border sires of old	M2
Waked a wild measure rude and bold	M2
Till Windsor's oaks and Ascot plain	L2
With wonder heard the Northern strain	L2
Come listen bold in thy applause	N
The bard shall scorn pedantic laws	N
And as the ancient art could stain	L2
Achievements on the storied pane	L2
Irregularly traced and planned	M2
But yet so glowing and so grand	M2
So shall he strive in changeful hue	U2
Field feast and combat to renew	U2
And loves and arms and harpers' glee	D2
And all the pomp of chivalry	D2

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion: Introduction To Canto V. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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