St. Swithin's Chair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH EEII JJKK LLMM KKNN| On Hallow Mass Eve ere yon boune ye to rest | A |
| Ever beware that your couch be bless'd | A |
| Sign it with cross and sain it with bead | B |
| Sing the Ave and say the Creed | B |
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| For on Hollow Mass Eve the Night Hag will ride | C |
| And all her nine fold sweeping on by her side | C |
| Whether the wind sing lowly or loud | D |
| Sailing through moonshine or swath'd in the cloud | D |
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| The Lady she sate in St Swithin's Chair | E |
| The dew of the night has damped her hair | E |
| Her cheek was pale but resolved and high | F |
| Was the word of her lip and the glance of her eye | F |
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| She mutter'd the spell of Swithin bold | G |
| When his naked foot traced the midnight wold | G |
| When he stopp'd the Hag as she rode the night | H |
| And bade her descend and her promise plight | H |
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| He that dare sit on St Swithin's Chair | E |
| When the Night Hag wings the troubled air | E |
| Questions three when he speaks the spell | I |
| He may ask and she must tell | I |
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| The Baron has been with King Robert his liege | J |
| These three long years in battle and siege | J |
| News are there none of his weal or his woe | K |
| And fain the Lady his fate would know | K |
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| She shudders and stops as the charm she speaks | L |
| Is it the moody owl that shrieks | L |
| Or is that sound betwixt laughter and scream | M |
| The voice of the Demon who haunts the stream | M |
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| The moan of the wind sunk silent and low | K |
| And the roaring torrent had ceased to flow | K |
| The calm was more dreadful than raging storm | N |
| When the cold grey mist brought the ghastly form | N |
Sir Walter Scott
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