Lochiel's Warning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKKLL AMNDD BOOPPQRSSTTUUDDVVWX AYUZZA2A2B2C2D2D2C BCAAGGE2E2F2F2DDG2H2 JJOONMAAI2I2J2J2A AAGGK2K2AAL2L2| Wizard Lochiel | A |
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| Wizard | B |
| Lochiel Lochiel beware of the day | C |
| When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array | C |
| For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight | D |
| And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight | D |
| They rally they bleed for their kingdom and crown | E |
| Woe woe to the riders that trample them down | E |
| Proud Cumberland prances insulting the slain | F |
| And their hoof beaten bosoms are trod to the plain | F |
| But hark through the fast flashing lightning of war | G |
| What steed to the desert flies frantic and far | H |
| 'Tis thine Oh Glenullin whose bride shall await | I |
| Like a love lighted watch fire all night at the gate | I |
| A steed comes at morning no rider is there | J |
| But its bridle is rd with the sign of despair | J |
| Weep Albin to death and captivity led | K |
| Oh weep but thy tears cannot number the dead | K |
| For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave | L |
| Culloden that reeks with the blood of the brave | L |
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| Lochiel | A |
| Go preach to the coward thou death telling seer | M |
| Or if gory Culloden so dreadful appear | N |
| Draw dotard around thy old wavering sight | D |
| This mantle to cover the phantoms of fright | D |
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| Wizard | B |
| Ha laugh'st thou Lochiel my vision to scorn | O |
| Proud bird of the mountain thy plume shall be torn | O |
| Say rushed the bold eagle exultingly forth | P |
| From his home in the dark rolling clouds of the north | P |
| Lo the death shot of foemen outspeeding he rode | Q |
| Companionless bearing destruction abroad | R |
| But down let him stoop from his havoc on high | S |
| Ah home let him speed for the spoiler is nigh | S |
| Why flames the far summit Why shoot to the blast | T |
| Those embers like stars from the firmament cast | T |
| 'Tis the fire shower of ruin all dreadfully driven | U |
| From his eyry that beacons the darkness of heaven | U |
| Oh crested Lochiel the peerless in might | D |
| Whose banners arise on the battlement's height | D |
| Heaven's fire is around thee to blast and to burn | V |
| Return to thy dwelling all lonely return | V |
| For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood | W |
| And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood | X |
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| Lochiel | A |
| False wizard avaunt I have marshalled my clan | Y |
| Their swords are a thousand their bosoms are one | U |
| They are true to the last of their blood and their breath | Z |
| And like reapers descend to the harvest of death | Z |
| Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock | A2 |
| Let him dash his proud foam like a wave on the rock | A2 |
| But woe to his kindred and woe to his cause | B2 |
| When Albin her claymore indignantly draws | C2 |
| When her bonnetted chieftains to victory crowd | D2 |
| Clanranald the dauntless and Moray the proud | D2 |
| All plaided and plumed in their tartan array | C |
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| Wizard | B |
| Lochiel Lochiel beware of the day | C |
| For dark and despairing my sight I may seal | A |
| But man cannot cover what God would reveal | A |
| 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore | G |
| And coming events cast their shadow before | G |
| I tell thee Culloden's dread echoes shall ring | E2 |
| With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king | E2 |
| Lo annointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath | F2 |
| Behold where he flies on his desolate path | F2 |
| Now in darkness and billows he sweeps from my sight | D |
| Rise rise ye wild tempests and cover his flight | D |
| 'Tis finished Their thunders are hushed on the moors | G2 |
| Culloden is lost and my country deplores | H2 |
| But where is the iron bound prisoner Where | J |
| For the red eye of battle is shut in despair | J |
| Say mounts he the ocean wave banished forlorn | O |
| Like a limb from his country cast bleeding and torn | O |
| Ah no for a darker departure is near | N |
| The war drum is muffled and black is the bier | M |
| His death bell is tolling oh mercy dispel | A |
| Yon sight that it freezes my spirit to tell | A |
| Life flutters convulsed in his quivering limbs | I2 |
| And his blood streaming nostril in agony swims | I2 |
| Accursed be the fagots that blaze at his feet | J2 |
| Where his heart shall be thrown ere it ceases to beat | J2 |
| With the smoke of its ashes to poison the gale | A |
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| Lochiel | A |
| Down soothless insulter I trust not the tale | A |
| Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore | G |
| Like ocean weeds heaped on the surf beaten shore | G |
| Lochiel untainted by flight or by chains | K2 |
| While the kindling of life in his bosom remains | K2 |
| Shall victor exult or in death be laid low | A |
| With his back to the field and his feet to the foe | A |
| And leaving in battle no blot on his name | L2 |
| Look proudly to heaven from the death bed of fame | L2 |
Thomas Campbell
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