Lord Ullin's Daughter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC D DE FEFE GEG HBHB IBH JKJK LBFB MBM NBNB BKBK OBOB PBP BKQK| A chieftain to the Highlands bound | A |
| Cries Boatman do not tarry | B |
| And I'll give thee a silver pound | A |
| To row us o'er the ferry '' | C |
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| Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle | D |
| This dark and stormy weather '' | - |
| O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle | D |
| And this Lord Ullin's daughter | E |
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| And fast before her father's men | F |
| Three days we've fled together | E |
| For should he find us in the glen | F |
| My blood would stain the heather | E |
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| His horsemen hard behind us ride | G |
| Should they our steps discover | E |
| Then who will cheer my bonny bride | G |
| When they have slain her lover '' | - |
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| Out spoke the hardy Highland wight | H |
| I'll go my chief I'm ready | B |
| It is not for your silver bright | H |
| But for your winsome lady | B |
| - | |
| And by my word the bonny bird | I |
| In danger shall not tarry | B |
| So though the waves are raging white | H |
| I'll row you o'er the ferry '' | - |
| - | |
| By this the storm grew loud apace | J |
| The water wraith was shrieking | K |
| And in the scowl of heaven each face | J |
| Grew dark as they were speaking | K |
| - | |
| But still as wilder blew the wind | L |
| And as the night grew drearer | B |
| Adown the glen rode arm d men | F |
| Their trampling sounded nearer | B |
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| O haste thee haste '' the lady cries | M |
| Though tempests round us gather | B |
| I'll meet the raging of the skies | M |
| But not an angry father '' | - |
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| The boat has left a stormy land | N |
| A stormy sea before her | B |
| When O too strong for human hand | N |
| The tempest gather'd o'er her | B |
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| And still they row'd amidst the roar | B |
| Of waters fast prevailing | K |
| Lord Ullin reach'd that fatal shore | B |
| His wrath was changed to wailing | K |
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| For sore dismay'd through storm and shade | O |
| His child he did discover | B |
| One lovely hand she stretch'd for aid | O |
| And one was round her lover | B |
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| Come back come back '' he cried in grief | P |
| Across this stormy water | B |
| And I'll forgive your Highland chief | P |
| My daughter O my daughter '' | - |
| - | |
| 'Twas vain the loud waves lash'd the shore | B |
| Return or aid preventing | K |
| The waters wild went o'er his child | Q |
| And he was left lamenting | K |
Thomas Campbell
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