Hunting Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDAA AADDEFAA AAGGHHAA AAIIDDAA| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
| On the mountain dawns the day | A |
| All the jolly chase is here | B |
| With hawk and horse and hunting spear | C |
| Hounds are in their couples yelling | D |
| Hawks are whistling horns are knelling | D |
| Merrily merrily mingle they | A |
| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
| The mist has left the mountain gray | A |
| Springlets in the dawn are steaming | D |
| Diamonds on the brake are gleaming | D |
| And foresters have busy been | E |
| To track the buck in thicket green | F |
| Now we come to chant our lay | A |
| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
| To the greenwood haste away | A |
| We can show you where he lies | G |
| Fleet of foot and tall of size | G |
| We can show the marks he made | H |
| When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd | H |
| You shall see him brought to bay | A |
| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
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| Louder louder chant the lay | A |
| Waken lords and ladies gay | A |
| Tell them youth and mirth and glee | I |
| Run a course as well as we | I |
| Time stern huntsman who can balk | D |
| Staunch as hound and fleet as hawk | D |
| Think of this and rise with day | A |
| Gentle lords and ladies gay | A |
Walter Scott (sir)
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