Keith Of Ravelston Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC BDED BFBF BBBB GBBB HIAI JBBB KLML NBBB ONBP BBBB| The murmur of the mourning ghost | A |
| That keeps the shadowy kine | B |
| 'O Keith of Ravelston | B |
| The sorrows of thy line ' | C |
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| Ravelston Ravelston | B |
| The merry path that leads | D |
| Down the golden morning hill | E |
| And thro' the silver meads | D |
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| Ravelston Ravelston | B |
| The stile beneath the tree | F |
| The maid that kept her mother's kine | B |
| The song that sang she | F |
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| She sang her song she kept her kine | B |
| She sat beneath the thorn | B |
| When Andrew Keith of Ravelston | B |
| Rode thro' the Monday morn | B |
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| His henchman sing his hawk bells ring | G |
| His belted jewels shine | B |
| O Keith of Ravelston | B |
| The sorrows of thy line | B |
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| Year after year where Andrew came | H |
| Comes evening down the glade | I |
| And still there sits a moonshine ghost | A |
| Where sat the sunshine maid | I |
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| Her misty hair is faint and fair | J |
| She keeps the shadowy kine | B |
| O Keith of Ravelston | B |
| The sorrows of thy line | B |
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| I lay my hand upon the stile | K |
| The stile is lone and cold | L |
| The burnie that goes babbling by | M |
| Says naught that can be told | L |
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| Yet stranger here from year to year | N |
| She keeps her shadowy kine | B |
| O Keith of Ravelston | B |
| The sorrows of thy line | B |
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| Step out three steps where Andrew stood | O |
| Why blanch thy cheeks for fear | N |
| The ancient stile is not alone | B |
| 'Tis not the burn I hear | P |
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| She makes her immemorial moan | B |
| She keeps her shadowy kine | B |
| O Keith of Ravelston | B |
| The sorrows of thy line | B |
Sydney Thompson Dobell
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