William And Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 1 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Sir Walter Scott

William And Helen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about William And Helen poem by Sir Walter Scott

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets

I	A
From heavy dreams fair Helen rose	B
And eyed the dawning red	C
'Alas my love thou tarriest long	D
O art thou false or dead '	E
	-
II	A
With gallant Fred'rick's princely power	F
He sought the bold Crusade	G
But not a word from Judah's wars	H
Told Helen how he sped	C
	-
III	A
With Paynim and with Saracen	I
At length a truce was made	G
And every knight return'd to dry	A
The tears his love had shed	C
	-
IV	J
Our gallant host was homeward bound	K
With many a song of joy	L
Green waved the laurel in each plume	M
The badge of victory	N
	-
V	N
And old and young and sire and son	I
To meet them crowd the way	O
With shouts and mirth and melody	N
The debt of love to pay	O
	-
VI	J
Full many a maid her true love met	P
And sobb'd in his embrace	Q
And flutt'ring joy in tears and smiles	R
Array'd full many a face	Q
	-
VII	J
Nor joy nor smile for Helen sad	S
She sought the host in vain	I
For none could tell her William's fate	T
In faithless or if slain	I
	-
VIII	J
The martial band is past and gone	I
She rends her raven hair	U
And in distraction's bitter mood	V
She weeps with wild despair	U
	-
IX	Q
'O rise my child ' her mother said	C
'Nor sorrow thus in vain	I
A perjured lover's fleeting heart	W
No tears recall again '	-
	-
X	Q
'O mother what is gone is gone	I
What's lost for ever lorn	I
Death death alone can comfort me	N
O had I ne'er been born	I
	-
XI	N
'O break my heart O break at once	Q
Drink my life blood Despair	U
No joy remains on earth for me	N
For me in Heaven no share '	-
	-
XII	Q
'O enter not in judgement Lord '	-
The pious mother prays	Q
'Impute not guilt to thy frail child	X
She knows not what she says	Q
	-
XIII	Q
'O say thy pater noster child	X
O turn to God and grace	Q
His will that turn'd thy bliss to bale	Y
Can change thy bale to bliss '	-
	-
XIV	J
'O mother mother what is bliss	Q
O mother what is bale	Y
My William's love was heaven on earth	Z
Without it earth is hell	A2
	-
XV	J
'Why should I pray to ruthless Heaven	I
Since my loved William's slain	I
I only pray'd for William's sake	B2
And all my prayers were vain '	-
	-
XVI	J
'O take the sacrament my child	X
And check these tears that flow	C2
By resignation's humble prayer	U
O hallow'd be thy woe '	-
	-
XVII	J
'No sacrament can quench this fire	F
Or slake this scorching pain	I
No sacrament can bid the dead	C
Arise and live again	I
	-
XVIII	J
'O break my heart O break at once	Q
Be thou my God Despair	U
Heaven's heaviest blow has fallen on me	N
And vain each fruitless prayer '	-
	-
XIX	Q
'O enter not in judgement Lord	D2
With thy frail child of clay	O
She knows not what her tongue has spoke	E2
Impute it not I pray	O
	-
XX	Q
'Forbear my child this desperate woe	C2
And turn to God and grace	Q
Well can devotion's heavenly glow	C2
Convert thy bale to bliss '	-
	-
XXI	Q
'O mother mother what is bliss	Q
O mother what is bale	Y
Without my William what were heaven	I
Or with him what were hell '	-
	-
XXII	Q
Wild she arraigns the eternal doom	M
Upbraids each sacred power	F
Till spent she sought her silent room	M
All in the lonely tower	F
	-
XXIII	Q
She beat her breast she wrung her hands	Q
Till sun and day were o'er	F
And through the glimmering lattice shone	I
The twinkling of the star	F2
	-
XXIV	J
Then crash the heavy drawbridge fell	A2
That o'er the moat was hung	G2
And clatter clatter on its boards	Q
The hoof of courser rung	G2
	-
XXV	J
The clank of echoing steel was heard	H2
As off the rider bounded	I2
And slowly on the winding stair	U
A heavy footstep sounded	I2
	-
XXVI	J
And hark and hark a knock Tap tap	J2
A rustling stifled noise	Q
Door latch and tinkling staples ring	K2
At length a whispering voice	Q
	-
XXVII	J
'Awake awake arise my love	J
How Helen dost thou fare	U
Wak'st thou or sleep'st laugh'st thou or weep'st	L2
Hast thought on me my fair '	-
	-
XXVIII	J
'My love my love so late by night	M2
I waked I wept for thee	N
Much have I borne since dawn of morn	I
Where William couldst thou be '	-
	-
XXIX	Q
'We saddle late from Hungary	N
I rode since darkness fell	A2
And to its bourne we both return	I
Before the matin bell '	-
	-
XXX	Q
'O rest this night within my arms	Q
And warm thee in their fold	N2
Chill howls through hawthorn bush the wind	O2
My love is deadly cold '	-
	-
XXXI	Q
'Let the wind howl through hawthorn bush	P2
This night we must away	O
The steed is wight the spur is bright	M2
I cannot stay till day	O
	-
XXXII	Q
'Busk busk and boune Thou mount'st behind	O2
Upon my black barb steed	Q2
O'er stock and stile a hundred miles	Q
We haste to bridal bed '	-
	-
XXXIII	Q
'To night to night a hundred miles	Q
O dearest William stay	O
The bell strikes twelve dark dismal hour	F
O wait my love till day '	-
	-
XXXIV	J
'Look here look here the moon shines clear	R2
Full fast I ween we ride	S2
Mount and away for ere the day	O
We reach our bridal bed	C
	-
XXXV	J
'The black barb snorts the bridle rings	Q
Haste busk and boune and seat thee	N
The feast is made the chamber spread	C
The bridal guests await thee '	-
	-
XXXVI	J
Strong love prevail'd She busks she bounes	Q
She mounts barb behind	O2
And round her darling William's waist	T2
Her lily arms she twined	O2
	-
XXXVII	J
And hurry hurry off they rode	U2
As fast as fast might be	N
Spurn'd from the courser's thundering heels	Q
The flashing pebbles flee	N
	-
XXXVIII	J
And on the right and on the left	V2
Ere they could snatch a view	J
Fast fast each mountain mead and plain	I
And cot and castle flew	J
	-
XXXIX	Q
'Sit fast dost fear The moon shines clear	R2
Fleet goes my barb keep hold	N2
Fear'st thou ' 'O no ' she faintly said	C
'But why so stern and cold	N2
	-
XL	J
'What yonder rings what yonder sings	Q
Why shrieks the owlet grey '	-
''Tis death bells' clang 'tis funeral song	D
The body to the clay	J
	-
XLI	J
'With song and clang at morrow's dawn	I
Ye may inter the dead	C
To night I ride with my young bride	S2
To deck our bridal bed	C
	-
XLII	J
'Come with thy choir thou coffin'd guest	W2
To swell our nuptial song	D
Come priest to bless our marriage feast	X2
Come all come all along '	-
	-
XLIII	J
Ceased clang and song down sunk the bier	Y2
The shrouded corpse arose	Q
And hurry hurry all the train	I
The thundering steed pursues	Q
	-
XLIV	J
And forward forward on they go	C2
High snorts the straining steed	Q2
Thick pants the rider's labouring breath	Z2
As headlong on they speed	Q2
	-
XLV	J
'O William why this savage haste	T2
And where thy bridal bed '	-
''Tis distant far low damp and chill	J
And narrow trustless maid '	-
	-
XLVI	J
'No room for me ' 'Enough for both	A3
Speed speed my barb thy course '	-
O'er thundering bridge through boiling surge	B3
He drove the furious horse	Q
	-
XLVII	J
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	U2
Splash splash along the sea	Q
The scourge is wight the spur is bright	M2
The flashing pebbles flee	Q
	-
XLVIII	J
Fled past on right and left how fast	C3
Each forest grove and bower	F
On right and left fled past how fast	C3
Each city town and tower	F
	-
XLIX	Q
'Dost fear dost fear The moon shines clear	R2
Dost fear to ride with me	Q
Hurrah hurrah the dead can ride '	-
'O William let them be	Q
	-
L	J
'See there see there What yonder swings	Q
And creaks 'mid whistling rain '	-
'Gibbet and steel th' accursed wheel	J
A murderer in his chain	I
	-
LI	Q
'Hollo thou felon follow here	Y2
To bridal bed we ride	S2
And thou shalt prance a fetter dance	Q
Before me and my bride '	-
	-
LII	Q
And hurry hurry clash clash clash	D3
The wasted form descends	Q
And fleet as wind through hazel bush	P2
The wild career attends	Q
	-
LIII	Q
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	U2
Splash splash along the sea	Q
The scourge is red the spur drops blood	I2
The flashing pebbles flee	Q
	-
LIV	J
How fled what moonshine faintly show'd	U2
How fled what darkness hid	E3
How fled the earth beneath their feet	L2
The heaven above their head	C
	-
LV	J
'Dost fear dost fear The moon shines clear	R2
And well the dead can ride	S2
Does faithful Helen fear for them '	-
'O leave in peace the dead '	-
	-
LVI	J
'Barb Barb methinks I hear the cock	F3
The sand will soon be run	I
Barb Barb I smell the morning air	U
The race is wellnigh done '	-
	-
LVII	J
Tramp tramp along the land they rode	U2
Splash splash along the sea	Q
The scourge is red the spur drops blood	I2
The flashing pebbles flee	Q
	-
LVIII	J
'Hurrah hurrah well ride the dead	C
The bride the bridge is come	G3
And soon we reach the bridal bed	C