Nora's Vow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHD IIJJBBJJ KKLLMMJJ| Hear what Highland Nora said | A |
| The Earlie's son I will not wed | A |
| Should all the race of nature die | B |
| And none be left but he and I | B |
| For all the gold for all the gear | C |
| And all the lands both far and near | C |
| That ever valour lost o won | D |
| I would not wed the Earlie's son | D |
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| A maiden's vows old Callum spoke | E |
| Are lightly made and lightly broke | E |
| The heather on the mountain's height | F |
| Begins to bloom in purple light | F |
| The frost wind soon shall sweep away | G |
| That lustre deep from glen and brae | G |
| Yet Nora ere its bloom be gone | H |
| May blithely wed the Earlie's son | D |
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| The swan she said the lake's clear breast | I |
| May barter for the eagle's nest | I |
| The Awe's fierce stream may backward turn | J |
| Ben Cruaichan fall and crush Kilchurn | J |
| Our kilted clans when blood is high | B |
| Before their foes may turn and fly | B |
| But I were all these marvels done | J |
| Would never wed the Earlie's son | J |
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| Still in the water lily's shade | K |
| Her wonted nest the wild swan made | K |
| Ben Cruaichan stands as fast as ever | L |
| Still downward foams the Awe's fierce river | L |
| To shun the clash of foeman's steel | M |
| No Highland brogue has turn'd the heel | M |
| But Nora's heart is lost and won | J |
| She's wedded to the Earlie's son | J |
Walter Scott (sir)
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