The Palmer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGHG IJIJ KBKB LJMJ NONO PJQ KOKR STST| 'O open the door some pity to show | A |
| Keen blows the northern wind | B |
| The glen is white with the drifted snow | A |
| And the path is hard to find | B |
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| 'No outlaw seeks your castle gate | C |
| From chasing the King's deer | D |
| Though even an outlaw's wretched state | C |
| Might claim compassion here | E |
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| 'A weary Palmer worn and weak | F |
| I wander for my sin | G |
| O open for our Lady's sake | H |
| A pilgrim's blessing win | G |
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| 'I'll give you pardons from the Pope | I |
| And reliques from o'er the sea | J |
| Or if for these you will not ope | I |
| Yet open for charity | J |
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| 'The hare is crouching in her form | K |
| The hard beside the hind | B |
| An aged man amid the storm | K |
| No shelter can I find | B |
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| 'You hear the Ettrick's sullen roar | L |
| Dark deep and strong is he | J |
| And I must ford the Ettrick o'er | M |
| Unless you pity me | J |
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| 'The iron gate is bolted hard | N |
| At which I knock in vain | O |
| The owner's heart is closer barr'd | N |
| Who hears me thus complain | O |
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| 'Farewell farewell and Mary grant | P |
| When old and frail you be | J |
| You never may the shelter want | Q |
| That's now denied to me ' | - |
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| The Ranger on his couch lay warm | K |
| And heard him plead in vain | O |
| But oft amid December's storm | K |
| He'll hear that voice again | R |
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| For lo when through the vapours dank | S |
| Morn shone on Ettrick fair | T |
| A corpse amid the alders rank | S |
| The Palmer welter'd there | T |
Sir Walter Scott
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