To The Sub-prior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCC DDEECCC A FFGGHHH IIJJKKK EEBBB| Good 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 |
| - | |
| '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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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