The Reiver's Wedding Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADE FGH AIAJ KALA EMEM ILIL ANAN AOPO ALA QLQL ELR ASAN A AL ATAD ULUV DADA AWAW LXLX L LP ALA ELEL AYAZO will ye hear a mirthful bourd | A |
Or will ye hear of courtesie | B |
Or will ye hear how a gallant lord | A |
Was wedded to a gay ladye | C |
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'Ca' out the kye ' quo' the village herd | A |
As he stood on the knowe | D |
'Ca' this ane's nine and that ane's ten | E |
And bauld Lord William's cow ' | - |
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'I swear by the light of the Michaelmas moon | F |
And the might of Mary high | G |
And by the edge of my braidsword brown | H |
They shall soon say Harden's kye ' | - |
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He took a bugle frae his side | A |
With names carved o'er and o'er | I |
Full many a chief of meikle pride | A |
That Border bugle bore | J |
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He blew a note baith sharp and hie | K |
Till rock and water rang around | A |
Three score of moss troopers and three | L |
Have mounted at that bugle sound | A |
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The Michaelmas moon had enter'd then | E |
And ere she wan the full | M |
Ye might see by her light in Harden glen | E |
A bow o' kye and a bassen'd bull | M |
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And loud and loud in Harden tower | I |
The quaigh gaed round wi' meikle glee | L |
For the English beef was brought in bower | I |
And the English ale flow'd merrilie | L |
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And mony a guest from Teviotside | A |
And Yarrow's Braes was there | N |
Was never a lord in Scotland wide | A |
That made more dainty fare | N |
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They ate they laugh'd they sang and quaff'd | A |
Till nought on board was seen | O |
When knight and squire were boune to dine | P |
But a spur of silver sheen | O |
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Lord William has ta'en his berry brown steed | A |
A sore shent man was he | L |
'Wait he my guests a little speed | A |
Weel feasted ye shall be ' | - |
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He rode him down by Falsehope burn | Q |
His cousin dear to see | L |
With him to take a riding turn | Q |
Wat draw the sword was he | L |
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And when he came to Falsehope glen | E |
Beneath the trysting tree | L |
On the smooth green was carved plain | R |
'To Lochwood bound are we ' | - |
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'O if they be gane to dark Lochwood | A |
To drive the Warden's gear | S |
Betwixt our names I ween there's feud | A |
I'll go and have my share | N |
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'For little reck I for Johnstone's feud | A |
The Warden though he be ' | - |
So Lord William is away to dark Lochwood | A |
With riders barely three | L |
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The Warden's daughters in Lochwood sate | A |
Were all both fair and gay | T |
All save the Lady Margaret | A |
And she was wan and wae | D |
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The sister Jean had a full fair skin | U |
And Grace was bauld and braw | L |
But the leal fast heart her breast within | U |
It weel was worth them a' | V |
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Her father's pranked her sisters twa | D |
With meikle joy and pride | A |
But Margaret maun seek Dundrennan's wa' | D |
She ne'er can be a bride | A |
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On spear and casque by gallants gent | A |
Her sisters' scarfs were borne | W |
But never at tilt or tournament | A |
Were Margaret's colours worn | W |
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Her sisters rode to Thirlstane bower | L |
But she was left at hame | X |
To wander round the gloomy tower | L |
And sigh young Harden's name | X |
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'Of all the knights the knight most fair | L |
From Yarrow to the Tyne ' | - |
Soft sigh'd the maid 'is Harden's heir | L |
But ne'er can he be mine | P |
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'Of all the maids the foulest maid | A |
From Teviot to the Dee | L |
Ah ' sighing sad that lady said | A |
'Can ne'er young Harden's be ' | - |
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She looked up the briery glen | E |
And up the mossy brae | L |
And she saw a score of her father's men | E |
Yclad in the Johnstone grey | L |
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O fast and fast they downwards sped | A |
The moss and briers among | Y |
And in the midst the troopers led | A |
A shackled knight along | Z |
Sir Walter Scott
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