To The Sub-prior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEECCC A FFGGHHH IIJJKKK EEBBBGood evening Sir Priest and so late as you ride | A |
With your mule so fair and your mantle so wide | A |
But ride you through valley or ride you o'er hill | B |
There is one that has warrant to wait on you still | B |
Back back | C |
The volume black | C |
I have a warrant to carry it back | C |
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What ho Sub Prior and came you but here | D |
To conjure a book from a dead woman's bier | D |
Sain you and save you be wary and wise | E |
Ride back with the book or you'll pay for your prize | E |
Back back | C |
There's death in the track | C |
In the name of my master I bid thee bear back | C |
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'In the name of MY Master ' said the astonished monk 'that name before which all things created tremble I conjure thee to say what thou art that hauntest me thus ' | - |
The same voice replied | A |
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That which is neither ill nor well | F |
That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell | F |
A wreath of the mist a bubble of the stream | G |
'Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream | G |
A form that men spy | H |
With the half shut eye | H |
In the beams of the setting sun am I | H |
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Vainly Sir Prior wouldst thou bar me my right | I |
Like the star when it shoots I can dart through the night | I |
I can dance on the torrent and ride on the air | J |
And travel the world with the bonny night mare | J |
Again again | K |
At the crook of the glen | K |
Where bickers the burnie I'll meet thee again | K |
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Men of good are bold as sackless | E |
Men of rude are wild and reckless | E |
Lie thou still | B |
In the nook of the hill | B |
For those be before thee that wish thee ill | B |
Sir Walter Scott
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