Nora's Vow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDE FFGGHHI JJKKBBK LLMMNNKK| Hear what Highland Nora said | A |
| 'The Earlie's son I will not wed | A |
| Should all the race of nature die | B |
| And none be left but he and I | B |
| For all the gold for all the gear | C |
| And all the lands both far and near | C |
| That ever valour lost o won | D |
| I would not wed the Earlie's son ' | E |
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| 'A maiden's vows ' old Callum spoke | F |
| 'Are lightly made and lightly broke | F |
| The heather on the mountain's height | G |
| Begins to bloom in purple light | G |
| The frost wind soon shall sweep away | H |
| That lustre deep from glen and brae | H |
| Yet Nora ere its bloom be gone | I |
| May blithely wed the Earlie's son ' | - |
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| 'The swan ' she said 'the lake's clear breast | J |
| May barter for the eagle's nest | J |
| The Awe's fierce stream may backward turn | K |
| Ben Cruaichan fall and crush Kilchurn | K |
| Our kilted clans when blood is high | B |
| Before their foes may turn and fly | B |
| But I were all these marvels done | K |
| Would never wed the Earlie's son ' | - |
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| Still in the water lily's shade | L |
| Her wonted nest the wild swan made | L |
| Ben Cruaichan stands as fast as ever | M |
| Still downward foams the Awe's fierce river | M |
| To shun the clash of foeman's steel | N |
| No Highland brogue has turn'd the heel | N |
| But Nora's heart is lost and won | K |
| She's wedded to the Earlie's son | K |
Sir Walter Scott
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