Cadyow Castle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Addressed to the Right Hon Lady Anne HamiltonA
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When princely Hamilton's abodeB
Ennobled Cadyow's Gothic towersC
The song went round the goblet flow'dB
And revel sped the laughing hoursC
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Then thrilling to the harp's gay soundD
So sweetly rung each vaulted wallE
And echoed light the dancer's boundD
As mirth and music cheer'd the hallE
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But Cadyow's towers in ruins laidF
And vaults by ivy mantled o'erG
And echoed light the dancer's boundD
As mirth and music cheer'd the hallE
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Yet still of Cadyow's faded fameH
You bid me tell a minstrel taleI
And tune my harp of Border frameH
On the wild banks of EvandaleI
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For thou from scenes of courtly prideJ
From pleasure's lighter scenes canst turnK
To draw oblivion's pall asideJ
And mark the long forgotten urnK
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Then noble maid at thy commandL
Again the crumbled halls shall riseM
Lo as on Evan's banks we standL
The past returns the present fliesM
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Where with the rock's wood cover'd sideJ
Were blended late the ruins greenN
Rise turrets in fantastic prideJ
And feudal banners flaunt betweenN
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Where the rude torrent's brawling courseO
Was shagg'd with thorn and tangling sloeI
The ashler buttress braves its forceO
And ramparts frown in battled rowI
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'Tis night the shade of keep and spireP
Obscurely dance on Evan's streamQ
And on the wave the warder's fireG
Is chequering the moonlight beamQ
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Fades slow their light the east is greyR
The weary warder leaves his towerG
Steeds snort uncoupled stag hounds bayR
And merry hunters quit the bowerG
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The drawbridge falls they hurry outS
Clatters each plank and swinging chainT
As dashing o'er the jovial routS
Urge the shy steed and slack the reinT
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First of his troop the Chief rode onU
His shouting merry men throng behindV
The steed of princely HamiltonA
Was fleeter than the mountain windV
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From the thick copse the roebucks boundD
The startled red deer scuds the plainT
For the hoarse bugle's warrior soundD
Has roused their mountain haunts againW
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Through the huge oaks of EvandaleI
Whose limbs a thousand years have wornX
What sullen roar comes down the galeI
And drowns the hunter's pealing hornX
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Mightiest of all the beasts of chaseY
That roam in woody CaledonX
Crashing the forest in his raceY
The Mountain Bull comes thundering onX
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Fierce on the hunter's quiver'd bandL
He rolls his eyes of swarthy glowI
Spurns with black hoof and horn the sandL
And tosses high his mane of snowI
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Aim'd well the Chieftain's lance has flownX
Struggling in blood the savage liesM
His roar is sunk in hollow groanX
Sound merry huntsmen sound the pryseM
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'Tis noon against the knotted oakZ
The hunters rest the idle spearA2
Curls through the trees the slender smokeZ
Where yeoman dight the woodland cheerA2
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Proudly the Chieftain mark'd his clanX
On greenwood lap all careless thrownX
Yet miss'd his eye the boldest manX
That bore the name of HamiltonX
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Why fills not Bothwellhaugh his placeM
Still wont our weal and woe to shareB2
Why comes he not our sport to graceM
Why shares he not our hunter's fareB2
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Stern Claud replied with darkening faceM
Grey Paisley's haughty lord was heC2
At merry feast or buxom chaseM
No more the warrior wilt thou seeC2
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Few suns have set since WoodhouseleeI
Saw Bothwellhaugh's bright goblets foamD2
When to his hearths in social gleeI
The war worn soldier turn'd him homeD2
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There wan from her maternal throesM
His Margaret beautiful and mildE2
Sate in her bower a pallid roseM
And peaceful nursed her new born childE2
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O change accursed past are those daysM
False Murray's ruthless spoilers cameH
And for the hearth's domestic blazeM
Ascends destruction's volumed flameH
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What sheeted phantom wanders wildE2
Where mountain Eske through woodland flowsM
Her arms enfold a shadowy childE2
Oh is it she the pallid roseM
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The wilder'd traveller sees her glideJ
And hears her feeble voice with aweF2
'Revenge ' she cries 'on Murray's prideJ
And woe for injured Bothwellhaugh '-
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He ceased and cries of rage and griefG2
Burst mingling from the kindred bandL
And half arose the kindling ChiefG2
And half unsheathed his Arran brandL
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But who o'er bush o'er stream and rockH2
Rides headlong with resistless speedI2
Whose bloody poniard's frantic strokeZ
Drives to the leap his jaded steedI2
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Whose cheek is pale whose eyeballs glareB2
As one some vision'd sight that sawM
Whose hands are bloody loose his hairB2
'Tis he 'tis BothwellhaughC2
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From gory selle and reeling steedI2
Sprung the fierce horseman with a boundD
And reeking from the recent deedI2
He dash'd his carbine on the groundD
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Sternly he spoke 'Tis sweet to hearJ2
In good greenwood the bugle blownX
But sweeter to Revenge's earJ2
To drink a tyrant's dying groanX
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Your slaughter'd quarry proudly trodeD
At dawning morn o'er dale and downX
But prouder base born Murray rodeD
Through old Linlithgow's crowded townX
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From the wild Border's humbled sideD
In haughty triumph marched heC2
While Knox relax'd his bigot prideD
And smiled the traitorous pomp to seeC2
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But can stern Power with all his vauntD
Or Pomp with all her courtly glareB2
The settled heart of Vengeance dauntD
Or change the purpose of DespairB2
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With hackbut bent my secret standD
Dark as the purposed deed I choseM
And mark'd where mingling in his bandD
Troop'd Scottish pikes and English bowsM
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Dark Morton girt with many a spearA2
Murder's foul minion led the vanX
And clash'd their broadswords in the rearA2
The wild Macfarlanes' plaided clanX
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Glencairn and stout Parkhead were nighK2
Obsequious at their Regent's reinX
And haggard Lindesay's iron eyeK2
That saw fair Mary weep in vainX
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'Mid pennon'd spears a steely groveL2
Proud Murray's plumage floated highK2
Scarce could his trampling charger moveM2
So close the minions crowded nighK2
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From the raised vizor's shade his eyeK2
Dark rolling glanced the ranks alongN2
And his steel truncheon waved on highK2
Seem'd marshalling the iron throngN2
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But yet his sadden'd brow confess'dD
A passing shade of doubt and aweF2
Some fiend was whispering in his breastD
'Beware of injured Bothwellhaugh '-
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The death shot parts the charger springsM
Wild rises tumult's startling roarO2
And Murray's plumy helmet ringsM
Rings on the ground to rise no moreO2
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What joy the raptured youth can fellI
To hear her love the loved one tellI
Or he who broaches on his steelI
The wolf by whom his infant fellI
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But dearer to my injured eyeK2
To see in dust proud Murray rollI
And mine was ten times trebled joyP2
To hear him groan his felon soulI
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My Margaret's spectre glided nearA2
With pride her bleeding victim sawM
And shriek'd in his death deafen'd earJ2
'Remember injured Bothwellhaugh '-
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Then speed thee noble ChatleraultD
Spread to the wind thy banner'd treeC2
Each warrior bend his Clydesdale bowQ2
Murray is fall'n and Scotland freeC2
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Vaults every warrior to his steedD
Loud bugles join their wild acclaimH
Murray is fall'n and Scotland freedD
Couch Arran couch thy spear of flameH
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But see the minstrel vision failsM
The glimmering spears are seen no moreO2
The shouts of war die on the galesM
Or sink in Evan's lonely roarO2
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For the loud bugle pealing highK2
The blackbird whistles down the valeI
And sunk in ivied ruins lieK2
The banner'd towers of EvandaleK2
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For Chiefs intent on bloody deedD
And Vengeance shouting o'er the slainX
Lo high born Beauty rules the steedD
Or graceful guides the silken reinX
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And long may Peace and Pleasure ownX
The maids who list the minstrel's taleK2
Nor e'er a ruder guest be knownX
On the fair banks of EvandaleK2

Walter Scott (sir)



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