Glenara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FGHI J KK DL IIII MML EEII| O heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale | A |
| Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail | A |
| 'Tis the chief of Glenara laments for his dear | B |
| And her sire and her people are called to her bier | C |
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| Glenara came first with the mourners and shroud | D |
| Her kinsmen they followed but mourned not aloud | D |
| Their plaids all their bosoms were folded around | E |
| They marched all in silence they looked on the ground | E |
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| In silence they reached over mountain and moor | F |
| To a heath where the oak tree grew lonely and hoar | G |
| 'Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn | H |
| Why speak ye no word ' said Glenara the stern | I |
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| 'And tell me I charge ye ye clan of my spouse | J |
| Why fold ye your mantles why cloud ye your brows ' | - |
| So spake the rude chieftain no answer is made | K |
| But each mantle unfolding a dagger displayed | K |
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| 'I dreamt of my lady I dreamt of her shroud ' | - |
| Cried a voice from the kinsmen all wrathful and loud | D |
| 'And empty that shroud and that coffin did seem | L |
| Glenara Glenara now read me my dream ' | - |
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| O pale grew the cheek of that chieftain I ween | I |
| When the shroud was unclosed and no lady was seen | I |
| When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn | I |
| 'Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn | I |
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| 'I dreamt of my lady I dreamt of her grief | M |
| I dreamt that her lord was a barbarous chief | M |
| On a rock of the ocean fair Ellen did seem | L |
| Glenara Glenara now read me my dream ' | - |
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| In dust low the traitor has knelt to the ground | E |
| And the desert revealed where his lady was found | E |
| From a rock of the ocean that beauty is borne | I |
| Now joy to the house of fair Ellen of Lorn | I |
Thomas Campbell
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